irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoI made a self-hostable frontend for instagram.codeberg.orgexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1137arrow-down1external-linkI made a self-hostable frontend for instagram.codeberg.orgirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square56linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWaryle@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 days agoThat’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.
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoEvery 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?
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.
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?