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I would agree with you... except that Reddit has always been referred to a link aggregator (and forum) since I've used it. It's a bit of both.
The problem is that there isn't really an over-arching name that you can call these services because they are all pretty distinct in their feature sets. Lemmy and kbin get grouped together often, but kbin also has microblogging capabilities which sets it apart from both Lemmy and Reddit.
Ha yea ... the elephant in the room is that we probably just want to define ourselves as "Not-Mastodon".
Even though /kbin is a fusion of platform formats (which I think is awesome BTW), the underlying common factor is the primary basis of connecting or socialising.
IN the case of reddit/lemmy/kbin/link aggregators etc ... it's subject matters and interests, not direct person-to-person social connections (which aren't even possible on lemmy). It's a significant difference IMO, and well worth trying to package in a memorable catchphrase or term. I just don't know what it'd be (my best idea being "threadiverse", which doesn't capture this idea at all really).
Yeah, I'd love to setup a /kbin instance at some point, it seems pretty nice.
Yeah... I'm not good at naming things lol