Since so many people are here because they consider the other platforms to be too enshittified, I like calling Lemmy “Antisocial Media”

Yes.

its Social media in the form of Aggretiated forums based on Interests rather.

Like this Lemmy sub here is No stupid questions a gather point for people asking and answer questions.

So you dont follow people here like lets say on twitter or instagram or tiktok , you rather follow topics / interests here.

Not the way I use it. I’m here to get news and entertainment. Without Lemmy, I would just do it piecemeal instead of coming to one place. There definitely is a social aspect but would you call YouTube social media? There is a comment section there too.

I do think an argument could be made, but it’s not in my opinion.

There’s somewhat of a historical context, where there were forums at first, where people generally used pseudonyms. Then the broad wave of webpages originally dubbed “social media” happened, which wanted users to use their real names. In that context, Lemmy doesn’t feel like social media.

But the strong distinction for platforms to either be pseudonymous or prefer real identies somewhat seized to exist, because it’s not anymore novel to use your real identity on the internet. For example, TikTok has a mixture of folks showing their face, as well as completely anonymous uploaders.

Instead, the definition is becoming more about: Do you interact with other humans? Which is a definite yes for Lemmy.

Antisocial Media

Edit: Damn someone already commented it

Interesting question on the fediverse. I tend to think that redditlikes aren’t, while twitterlikes are; so what does it mean if they’re federated? Does it depend on how you access the content?

Maybe it’s a spectrum. Bulletin board forums are on one side, then Stack Overflow, then redditlikes, then twitterlikes, then Instagram-like image sharing, then Facebook on the far other side.