I don’t think he needs to convince you of that. The results of your election are plain for all to see.

There will be an improvement of course. That kind of thinking is why the USA still uses imperial after 200 years of the metric system.

You have to do that anyway.

Low skill users will use what comes installed on their machine, so installation quirks like that are not relevant for them. They don’t install Windows either.

You might be able to create profiles anonymously, but you can’t use those services anonymously. They only work if you have other people added as friends or whatever, unlike content aggregators like lemmy or reddit, where you can be as anonymous as you want and still interact with all features of the site.

I think that narrows it down enough. If you can use all features of the platform without personally knowing anyone on it, it’s not social media.

Then email is also social media, Google docs is social media, phpBB is social media, Amazon review sections are social media, even Pornhub comment sections are social media, and so on…

If Lemmy fits the criteria, then so does 95% of the internet. Not a very useful definition, in that case.