This is a thought I had mostly to do with Lemmy but I feel likes it’s relevant elsewhere in Fediverse.

As far as I know Lemmy doesn’t lock posts after a set amount of time like Reddit does and I feel like this is a good thing for smaller niche communities. For example if I created one for a one off video game or cancelled TV show it could be hard to generate new content to post to really help it take off. It would be nice to see people engaging with old posts when they stumble across a community and subscribe to it.

I feel like I haven’t see it a ton yet but I hope it’s a way Lemmy and the Fediverse can be different from sites like Reddit.

  • Die4EverEnglish
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    10 months ago

    traditional old-school forum software and I think that revives older content better, as one user commenting on an old post will bring up a thread to the top again.

    Lemmy does this if you use the “New Comments” sort method

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We’re referring to discovering old posts here, not when you already have a post open.