geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 23 hours agoCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'lemmy.mlimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageCan the term 'link aggregator' be changed to 'decentralized forum'lemmy.mlgeneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 23 hours agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
Or another term which is more descriptive. This is the first thing people see when they type in Lemmy
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·19 hours agoThe important point is that people who are not familiar with what Lemmy is can understand it feom reading its description. Other suggestions are possible too.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·19 hours agoDigg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don’t think people are unfamiliar with it.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-219 hours 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.
The important point is that people who are not familiar with what Lemmy is can understand it feom reading its description. Other suggestions are possible too.
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