I figured someone might say that. The fediverse can be used as social media, sure.

Using lemmy and piefed only on the other hand is not. They are just forums. There is no social part. You are all bots and randos to me. Annonynmous liars talking about whatever.

No following, no ads, no corporate control, no network of friedns, no self promotion, nearly everything about the “social” part is missing.

Got an annoying emoji in though. I need to re-write my front end to drop those things.