I mean that someone made up the term “link aggregator” without realizing whether it was an accurate term to describe what it was. Or what it would become.

Eventually it grew far past a simple link posting site. What made Reddit and Digg popular was the user interaction. Not link aggregatition. It was a giant forum with many subforums. That is the simplest way to describe it for laymen. And a description should be for laymen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform.

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And the media must confront Zionists when they equate Judaism to Zionism.

Blaming South Africa for Western colonialism is a level of hypocrisy I thought only Zionists were capable of.

Also note that right before that Israeli leaders literally killed the UN mefiator Folke Bernadotte because they didn’t like how his partition plan and then replaced him with a Zionist who gave all most if Palestine to Jews.

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Nobody knows what the term means. Even Wikipedia doesn’t describe Reddit as a link aggregator. For potential new users this is a massive turn off. Unless we want Lemmy to stay a niche community it needs to accommodate to layman terms.

Most people who land on the join Lemmy page don’t even know what the Fediverse is.

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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

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.

It can be a big turn off to potential new users who have no idea what Lemmy is.

The term link aggregator makes me think of a search engine. A forum is based on user content. Forums generally make lots of new threads too. The only way forum threads stay active is when people bump them by responding to it. Lemmy posts also stay on the front page longer if people keep responding to them.

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that if anyone sends the list to Ken Klippenstein he will publish it.

The term “link aggregator” is not descriptive of any function. Links are posted on any medium including chatrooms like Discord.

Users can also make posts, such as this one, which do not contain external links. Thus this is a forum.

Because a description is supposed to describe stuff and make people understand what it is.

That’s Netanyahu’s plan though. Trump doesn’t make plans. He puts his signature underneath lobbyists plans.

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