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.
This is Lemmy I regularly get replies to three month old comments.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Again it’s Lemmy.
It’s the difference between two upvotes and three.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m either too high or not high enough to understand that.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 day 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 However, news reports are characterized by the fact that they are usually outdated by the next day because they are only relevant for a limited period of time.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.