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What do we call the Lemmy/Kbin Universe?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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What prompted this was trying to refer to the growth of the userbase on the federated Reddit alternatives as a distinct niche within the fediverse.
I’d probably call this niche of fediverse apps “fediverse link aggregators”. Their UI really only makes them useful for that at the moment (IMO - haven’t tried kbin), and you can technically follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon if you want (it’s not a great UX), but you don’t get the aggregation doing that. At least not without sorting down to just that view.
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I think when talking colloquially to a broader audience, "reddit-like" is good enough.
When talking internally, I don't know, "link aggregator" doesn't really describe what these are to me at all. I wouldn't call reddit a "link aggregator" it doesn't really fit what reddit is (many posts don't have links??).
I think the essential differentiator of reddit is the voting.
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I would call a "reddit-like" a "community elected feed" or a "voted forum".