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