Or another term which is more descriptive. This is the first thing people see when they type in Lemmy
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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Forums update threads by bumping, so threads from ten years ago can still be on the front page as long as they are active.
The term "link aggregator" was made to differentiate websites that are designed for threads to rapidly decay and be replaced by a constant flow of new content. If you tried to federate lemmy with a forum it wouldn't really work.
Maybe there's another term that could be used, but there needs to be a way to differentiate the two styles.
There literally are forums with ActivityPub support. Bumping is not some magic feature of forums. If you sort on Lemmy by activity you can get exactly the same behaviour.
And bumping is even often frowned upon because it pollutes active discussions. It's just people abusing how those forums sort threads.
Point. That's not the default behavior, though, and most users aren't using the site that way - and I'd argue the site isn't designed the be used that way, and that's why most users don't use that functionality.
Not what I meant. I don't mean people making worthless "bump" comments (that often just gets people banned) I mean that forums bump up threads that get new comments.
I use forums, and they're just different.