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