Or another term which is more descriptive. This is the first thing people see when they type in Lemmy

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Forums update threads by bumping, so threads from ten years ago can still be on the front page as long as they are active.

    The term “link aggregator” was made to differentiate websites that are designed for threads to rapidly decay and be replaced by a constant flow of new content. If you tried to federate lemmy with a forum it wouldn’t really work.

    Maybe there’s another term that could be used, but there needs to be a way to differentiate the two styles.

  • wakest@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I agree that ‘link aggregator’ is a horrible term that is only relevant to nerds and shouldn’t be used in any general user facing way as a description. I think this is the sort of thing that is really a collective failure of the fediverse and open source / free culture projects in general is how out of reach all of our lingo is to anyone not already in the in-group.