• irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    21 hours ago

    I would definitely call a forum or IRC channel social media.

    I wouldn’t consider blogs social media unless they had a very active comments section.

    • Fedditor385@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Media is more audio, video, image. Which fits social media.

      Most forums and blogs are text-based or primary text. There is no blog sharing only images/videos/audio as posts. Also no such forum.

      That would be my key differentiation - forums and IRC is social, but not really media.

      • ptu@sopuli.xyz
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        16 hours ago

        Printed media is definately media, and so are blogs. The social part of it is how people can interact with it.