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.

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.

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.

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

@dessalines@lemmy.ml

That’s the amazing part. It broke and they didn’t fix it.

Yes but counterpoint Pussy Riot is white and Bob Vylan is black.

We got GIF memes now?

What is a “left lib”?

He volunteered that he wanted to kill himself by strapping an explosive to his head, setting the timer for one hour and drugging himself to sleep. He said he lacked access to any drug stronger than codeine. Available explosives were not the problem.

I swear every time I read some commie stuff I get halfway and it starts referencing other stuff which I click and then I get halfway and then it references something else and suddenly I’m reading critiques from 1800

Sure, so I’m completely unfamiliar with the whole Commune structure and am wondering how wealth would be acquired and distributed. Are people rewarded for their labor and how does ownership work?

Sure but how can Communism prevent someone from trying to acquire more wealth than they need?

Greed is boundless for some. If anything Capitalism is the perfect example of this. I don’t see how having enough will fix it for them.

When I look at the open-source community the way altruistic projects reach sustainable success is with a beneficial dictator which is authoritarian but has correct intentions.

Okay but how does it solve this im14andthisisdeep Facebook meme?

So if everyone gets rich we have Communism?

Also I read some of your other link as well, but it went into tangents about elite friend groups and while it was interesting I felt like watching one of those 2 hour videos about speedrunning where you get a huge infodump but are not sure what to take away from it.

I feel like the Chinese model is already way too far into pragmatism to ever idealistically flip the switch to abolishing their state at the endgame.

Does a global expansion require imperialism? Getting the entire world to sign up before dissolving sounds pretty mission impossible.

You better not be sending me into recursion when I click this