Yeah, I know this does meet the technical definition of social media, but I think there is a distinction between the sites that really matters. It's really the Big Tech FB/Instagram/Reddit/TikTok/etc that are the problem, not your small "mom and pop" forum.
There are two main factors driving the distinction that I've considered:
- The Big Tech platforms have massive advertising, tracking, astroturfing, and psychological hacks that exploit their users.
- The biggest platforms have normies, and most people are just stupid and suck. If you transported all Reddit users to Phuks, we'd suffer from a whole bunch of new problems here that plague Reddit, for example.
Reason 78 why to get off social media.