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I dunno, why does everyone blow their nose on a kleenex?
Lego is eponymous for plastic building blocks. If you call the forum anything else, you aren't going to be recognizable and easy to find.
I mean, hell, there's people that don't even know there's actual brands other than lego at all
That's a problem in some ways. Lego alternatives are legal and simply competing products. Continuing to equal a whole product category to one brand is not helpful. It might have been a colloquial decision and be fine like you suggested. Unfortunately, Lego takes legal action against such attempts.
I understand the intentional misnaming of competitor products as Legos (not "Lego" mind you) in this incident, but the lawyers advocated for a video takedown. And I feel this community could be threatened by this as well. https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/held-der-steine-lego-abmahnung-gattungsbegriff-markenrecht/ Unfortunately it is in German, but it continues a very detailed lawyer's perspective of what happened there.
Well, not all of them are. Some are just blatant rip-offs and copyright violations.