geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'lemmy.mlimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1imageCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'lemmy.mlgeneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square18linkfedilinkfile-text
Or another term which is more descriptive. This is the first thing people see when they type in Lemmy
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoDigg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don’t think people are unfamiliar with it.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoI vaguely remember the term from yCombinator which is exclusively links and does not have communities. Even when using Reddit for many years in the past I never heard the term. It seems like Reddit too realized that it was not a good term for marketing. According to NATOpedia Reddit is also a forum and "social news aggregation platform https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit Reddit (/ˈrɛdɪt/ ⓘ RED-it) is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform.
Digg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don’t think people are unfamiliar with it.
I vaguely remember the term from yCombinator which is exclusively links and does not have communities.
Even when using Reddit for many years in the past I never heard the term. It seems like Reddit too realized that it was not a good term for marketing.
According to NATOpedia Reddit is also a forum and "social news aggregation platform
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit