In essence, what woud you say lemmy is? A way to have all your old forum subscriptions in one place in the form of communies?
Or is there something else I’m missing?
A link aggregator.
Although it can feel like “A link aggregator for people reluctant to click on external links”
Feel like? It is this, for the most part lol
Is that really an accurate description though? Do people primarily use it to find links, or to have discussions? I think more the latter.
I am of the same persuasion… “link aggregator”, I would think, should be a place to “aggregate” links. In lemmy you have 4 fields: URL, Image, Title and Body. Never seen someone say lemmy is an image aggregator, for example. Body is for discussion (as in forums) and seems to be where the meat of the matter really is.
For the fediverse
distributed forum.
Some boards in one server, some boards in another server, glued by
miraclesomeone’s hardwork.A miserable pile of content.
@Ninguem It is a kind of forum, but not quite as structured. The special thing for me is that it is part of the Fediverse. For me, it is a platform that offers a topic-centred access to the Fediverse. It follows a different logic than microblogging services like Mastodon, which are account-centred and in which the content has to be structured by the individual users via lists, hashtags, antennas and the like.
It is possible to interact with Lemmy content from Mastodon etc. and also to create posts in Lemmy communities (I’m replying here from #Friendica)). But with Lemmy account (which I also have) the content is of course even better structured. But it is not quite as structured as in a classic forum.💀
A reddit alternative
… in the Fediverse
Fundamentally it’s Reddit but distributed.
@Lmaydev I love the federation part of it, though. Shouldn’t lemmy be more like stack exchange, then?
In its use it’s practically exactly the same as Reddit. I would say it’s format is taken pretty much as is from Reddit.
The difference is the instances. Now instead of just reddit.com we have a series of websites each with their own admins.
This adds a new dimension to it’s ecosystem and lots of new drama. But to most users makes very little difference.
Communist Reddit