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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The anonymous factor differentiates things.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't any social media be anonymous?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So Twitter isn't a social media?

[–] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The "social" aspect is up to debate.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Good old asocial network.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Usernames though. Anonymous would be something like 4chan

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess they mean Facebook, Xitter, etc. You know, the big ones.

[–] doctordevice@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think anonymous social media, while still social media, occupies a very different category from non-anonymous (identified?) social media. And the default interpretation of "social media" is the latter.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That'd make Twitter not social media for people not using their actual names.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

Any media can be anonymous.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] zik@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's also "social news", which is a kind of social media.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Only if you don't participate in the comments sections or even just look at them.

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

More or less, but they specified “regular social media” which Lemmy is not

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I'm on kbin. But I'd consider this and other reddit inspired websites to be closer to a forum than a social media. Sure, you can use it like a regular social media site, but it's more tilted towards a forum method.

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Not a regular one