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.

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
    131·
    10 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

    • Land_Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 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.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 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.

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      10 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.