One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve noticed that some people do use other filters than “Hot” or they scroll back in smaller communities, because I’ll occasionally get comment replies to posts I made months ago. It’s cool to see.

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• thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s all agree right now that we’re not going to be a community that necro-shames.

  EDIT: JUST TO BE CLEAR I MEAN MAKING PEOPLE FEEL BAD FOR POSTING IN OLD THREADS AND ONLY THAT ONE USAGE OF THE TERM

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I, however, am okay with both.

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    • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤨 Be careful where you take this conversation…

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• amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t know how the fediverse would play out in the long term but I expect a few things:

  • Lemmy devs will implement locking old posts in the future
  • instance owners will decide on their post locking policies
  • Many instances will not survive for as long as Reddit survived till today
  • Third party archivers (perhaps archive.org among others) will need to step in and archive posts. Ofc archived posts is not interactible.

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  • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with your points. Especially the third one. I do hope a majority of instances op-out of locking posts but I could see large instances like lemmy.world definitely jumping to do it and focus more on new content and expansion

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be good if a comment bumped a thread to the top of the “new” feed.

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    flashbacks to single word “bump” posts

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    • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like Reddit’s version of bump was people commenting This all the time

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing was more infuriating that being on a tech forum, seeing someone post the same problem you were having, 4-5 bumps, then the OP saying “Nevermind, I got it” and the thread closing

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does the Active feed work this way?

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s what it does

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    • mac@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Active is a combination of that and hot but is essentially hard capped at 2 days. Things past that wont show up

      Theres the new comments sort which works like that though

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a “sort [posts] by new comments” option.

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    • webjukebox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To me, this option works much better than “Active”, “Hot” and others.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is also the option to sort by “active,” which is not exactly what you are describing but makes it more likely to see older content. Some apps default to this sorting mode

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• fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this post is going to blow up in like 3 years

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• finthechat@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the way it should be.

  I've never understood the people who get upset over 'necroing' a thread, whether it is on an old school forum or something formatted like Reddit.

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  • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it necroing posts on Reddit makes sense. There’s a lot of very specific posts that can vary slightly from each other but I find with forums you can get a general post for a topic that has 30+ pages of responses and it can be a bit of a pain to comb through all of them at times. In my experience I see a lot of people linking to other comments in the forum because something has already been brought up a few times.

    This is basically what @technomad@slrpnk.net said about beating a dead horse but I feel like it’s slightly more tolerable with a Reddit style system where there’s more posts with at least minor differences. It’s a bit easier to follow.

    This could also just be the forums that I have used shaping my opinion

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe something similar to do with ‘beating a dead horse’

    the problem/issue was (potentially) already discussed, and renewing the issue is tiresome for the regulars who see it repetitively brought up? This is just my guess.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it is about a problem they had and the thread didn’t have an answer, then they should be obliged to necro if they found a solution.

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    • finthechat@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For technical discussion, sure. I'll be one of the first people to say look at the sticky, look at the pins, look at the megathread, read the FAQ, read the wiki.

      For purely social discussion like casual chat, entertainment discussion, or random musings, I would say it doesn't make sense.

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• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  yes I think there can be a lot of power here, Reddit was really bad about this

  sometimes I like to sort posts by “New Comments” so it’s like an old style forum, Reddit couldn’t do this at all and it was awful, Lemmy’s “Active” sort is also pretty good for this

  join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html

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• GarytheSnail@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oddly enough, just last week I got a reddit notification that someone had replied to a comment I made… 11 years ago.

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  • Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got gold off a door pun once, 2 years later. Had a hand full of 3-4 year old comments get a reply. BUT 11 DAMN YEARS?

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    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A week ago someone commented on my 9 year old reddit post.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing standing in the way of this is the inability to move identities in Lemmy/Kbin. This is my 3rd time with a “Maximum Derek” user in the Threadiverse; my first was on Kbin back in June when it was really struggling, then I went to a Lemmy instance that just disappeared one day. If you try to engage with any of my posts I made while on those servers, I’ll never know it.

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  • webjukebox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I miss the old OpenID way.

    We need a very, very simple ID server that everybody should be able to install, even as an app for smartphones and ActivityPub (and others) able to communicate to.

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  • syd@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    f*ck vlemmy 🤡

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In my case it was fossware

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope this one works better! I signed up at tchncs when I started Lemmy, and it seems like I chose well :)

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess self hosting is the only sure way

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    man, now I need to watch TGP again…

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did a rewatch right before the holidays. Probably the 5th time I’ve watched through the series and I’m still catching new stuff. So good.

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• maxenmajs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perfectly fine in my opinion. It isn’t like oldschool forums where a reply bumps a thread to page 1.

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• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hm I always avoid replying to anything older than, say, 2 days because I assume it’s pointless and/or it annoys people

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I definitely wouldn’t find it annoying.

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  • Land_Strider@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pointless part I can understand, but annoying? What’s more, it should prove what you make effort to post can still get engagement over time, and not scattered to winds.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I work with a product enjoying a 27 year support window.

    That’s WAY more than 2 days.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same, old habit from reddit, probably because it’s so huge it was hard to get seen when something was an hour old, much less a day. I probably shouldn’t do that here.

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  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on the content and context. Some older post, even years old, might totally okay for discussion. Just like those traditional forums with years of ongoing threads.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen comments and replies on my posts, that came weeks or months after I made them. I’ll respond to them if they are anything more than “Haha yeah that’s cool!”

  There has to be more to add to the conversation, otherwise it will be like posting a 3 year old article to the news community.

  I definitely encourage people not to be shy to post and comment on stale communities that haven’t seen recent activity, that can get the ball rolling to revive it.

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• MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It will definitely start to happen more as more forums start to join the fediverse (discourse for Eg).

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  • bob_lemon@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aren’t forums absolutely notorious for forbidding “thread necromancy”?

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    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah necroposting is almost always frowned upon in favor of making a new post.

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    • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Forms vary with those types of rules. I absolutely hate the ones that are autolocking after a few days/months.

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• Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had it happen that i joined a community and commented in some interesting thread and only then noticed that it was 3 or even 6 months old

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• Prouvaire@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be nice to see people engaging with old posts when they stumble across a community and subscribe to it.

  One barrier that will make this difficult is that instances only get a community's feed from the moment they first subscribe to it, if that community's home instance is on another server. So if you're a user on - say - leminal.space and you're the first person on that server to subscribe to - say - Musicals@kbin.social then you will not see any of that community's old posts, only posts created (or boosted) after you've subscribed. This makes it difficult to engage with old content unless other people on your instance have been members of that community for much longer.

  This is one of the issues with the fediverse model that doesn't exist in a centralised model like reddit. And, sadly smaller, niche communities are the ones most likely to be affected by this limitation, because they're the ones least likely to be federated to a large number of instances. It makes smaller, less active communities look even more inactive than they actually are.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought you still got all the posts, just not any of the comments?

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  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This can’t be true, right? I swear I’ve subscribed to communities or magazines and have seen older posts on them before. Otherwise, they’d always be blank.

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    • Prouvaire@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It means you weren't the first person on your server to subscribe that community/magazine.

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ive been runnin kbin for > 6 months... its kind of neat how i get comments from months ago from some new instance that just spun up somewhere, or some newer user commenting on older stuff out there in the ether.

  youre right though, gotta stick with your account once you have it.. its like email. very targeted.

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find myself commenting on “older” posts fairly frequently, I’m not actually upset at there being “less” content.

  This place feels like Reddit did 15 years ago.

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• Aurix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doubt it as they will get buried anyways. Forums should be more common and even they autolock threads. At some point in time you have to reframe the content into the current cultural context.

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  • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get what you mean but I think it’s a decent way to breath some life into older small communities and show the people posting there it wasn’t for nothing. The relevancy of a post doesn’t always have to fade as well.

    I still prefer people posting new content but I think engaging with old posts can be beneficial.

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I lost count of the posts on Reddit, which i found really interesting, reading all comments and eagerly wanting to post a comment myself, just to see the lock

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• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some content does get locked but usually it’s when the comments go off the rails, so it’s pretty rare

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  • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On Reddit or here you mean?

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they are talking about moderators locking threads. There should maybe be a “lock for 30 days” option that would allow threads to open up after things cool down. Although if a post led to abuse in the past, perhaps it is likely to do the same later on.

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I often find I can’t see old posts in active communities, and on masto my instance only holds 2w worth of cache because the owner is but one man not a corpo with endless storage.

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• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had it from time to time

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  my latest notification was that

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