geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'imagemessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up137arrow-down1imageCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square21linkfedilinkfile-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-up8·2 months agoDigg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don’t think people are unfamiliar with it.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 months 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