• Waryle@jlai.lu
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    17 hours ago

    That’s a totally made up definition from your part. Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary”. A social media is just the middleman that allows people to socialize. Lemmy is a social media, as well as a social network.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      17 hours ago

      Every definition is “made up” 🙄

      What I explained is how these terms are commonly used on the fediverse.

      And anyways, if “social media” and “social network” is the same, why have two different terms for it?

      • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml
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        7 hours ago

        There are lot of synonyms, people just choose some words in different contexts based on how they sound. Why use the word “begin” when the word “start” exists?