[x3haloed]

> I don't think society needs public, or at least public by default, social media. This is even more true now in the age of LLMs and mass data harvesting. Depends on your definition of “social media.” Is a message board / forum considered social media? Because while they can be problematic, they’re still extremely useful. It would be interesting to think about decentralized Reddit and why lemmy is going nowhere.

[ianopolous]

That's a good question. I don't think I'm including reddit here because those are moderated spaces on a fixed topic. I consider social media more people posting top level things that others can choose to follow directly. So social media is more like people meeting and talking, whereas reddit is more like an interest-based society meeting and talking.