Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful.

sanderium@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, the quality of content hardly matters if you’re late. If you waited just one day to respond to this post, no one would notice your comment.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is Lemmy I regularly get replies to three month old comments.

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    • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s true, of course. But these responses are hardly visible to most people. Of course, the thread is still online years later, but since people today generally only use social media apps, they no longer see these responses, no matter how valuable they may be. If anything, they only perceive these delayed responses as part of the data sets of LLMs – but then mostly without reference to the original content.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m either too high or not high enough to understand that.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most people aren’t into threads necromancy. New post and comments get more replies than the old ones. They aren’t completely forgotten, but the difference in attention is massive.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Again it’s Lemmy.

        It’s the difference between two upvotes and three.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fortunately, you can just sit on it and wait for the inevitable bevvy of reposts.

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    • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      {Placeholder for a particularly witty comment next time}

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  • sanderium@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess that is true, but that would only be a negative thing if you wanted attention(which is not necessarily a bad thing). If one is not sure people would respond your comment, one can always mention a post from the past and ask whatever information you were looking. And I would argue this happens in real life aswell, you can’t always force a joke on an old topic at a dinner or party.

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• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This, basically

  xkcd.com/1019/

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  • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That same problem still exists even when sorting by upvotes, because the earlier a comment is posted the more people will see and be able to vote on it, pushing it higher.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a very good point. Also, the later comments don’t get seen by many people, and that’s why they don’t get many votes either.

      Obviously, sorting changes all that, but I don’t think many people sort posts and comments by new. If you don’t touch the settings, things are sorted by hot.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What kind of slob gets their opinions from the comments sections of a local news outlet?

    Hell, do major publications even have comments sections anymore? I’m lucky to see the first paragraph of a story, nevermind getting all the way down to the bottom of the article to see what some random assholes think about it.

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    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean…

      [Gestures broadly at the state of the world]

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Web 2.0 was such a nice idea on paper.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It was great when they’d tricked investors into giving users an ecosystem with no (obvious) ads.

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  • sanderium@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That makes sense

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