Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media

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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media
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True, but I think the big difference is that social media in the way of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc are tied to your identity IRL and include people that you actually know IRL, therefore are almost an extension of your life, whereas lemmy, reddit, and other iterest-specific forums have to option of decoupling from real life.

Interesting point. However, I think there are many anonymous account on Twitter, for example. Yet it is no different from others.

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