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.

• 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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      • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What I mean by this is that every topic is treated like breaking news on social media. However, news reports are characterized by the fact that they are usually outdated by the next day because they are only relevant for a limited period of time. This is not true for many topics discussed on social media. In fact, it is even possible to repeat something after a certain period of time (e.g., reposting memes), which is impossible with actual news reports.

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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

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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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