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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

Lemmy does this if you use the "New Comments" sort method

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're referring to discovering old posts here, not when you already have a post open.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not talking about the "New" sort method for comments, I'm talking about the "New Comments" sort method for posts

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums