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[โ€“] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah... That works in the context where people actually share links. Various news communities definitely fit that description, but then there are several discussion communities where links aren't the main point. Take ask lemmy or no stupid questions for example. Oh, and then there are also picture communities like superbowl.

Lumping all of them together with "link aggregator" platforms doesn't fit very well. From a historical perspective that's fine though. As far as I know, Reddit started as a link aggregator, and diversified later.

[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

yea I was just joking lol, there was recently a discussion about how join-lemmy was still saying "link aggregator" and everyone thought it was a terrible description

https://lemmy.ml/post/41719890

[โ€“] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I guess that's still technically correct, the best kind of correct. Still sounds odd, but I guess it kinda works as long as you use the term because of historical reasons.

Regardless, now that Lemmy/Piefed has become such diverse platforms, it's getting harder to nail it down into a single convenient term.

I think the defining feature of these platforms is the topic focused approach. On Mastodon, you care about the people who write whatever, while on Lemmy/Piefed, you care about a topic written by whoever.

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Also Mbin, nodeBB, and perhaps flarum.

Threaded conversations = Threadiverse. Hierarchical replies.

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