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One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

This is more of a front end thing. Mastodon sometimes revives old content by people boosting an old post that could go viral again. Lemmy's algo is designed around hiding older posts as they age. I could see this being more relevant in upcoming software like Discourse and phpbb which are adding fedi support. They're more traditional old-school forum software and I think that revives older content better, as one user commenting on an old post will bring up a thread to the top again.

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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I've had it from time to time

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

On Reddit or here you mean?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.