I really enjoy rereading my past conversations, whether it’s texts or comments here on Lemmy. I do it pretty much every day, and I just think about the different things that could have been said. I don’t obsess over it, I basically treat it like another feed. When I get bored of Home and All, I go through my own profile.
Do you ever reread past conversations here or elsewhere? How often?
Eh, not often, usually.
Mostly, I only do it when I’m needing to refer to something to refresh my memory, or when I said I’d do something and get back to someone, or to edit in something new.
Most days, I don’t even look at all, unless one of my friends notices a typo or something. My meat space friends seem to enjoy my stories on lemmy the way they did on reddit, so they’ll drop me a message via signal or whatever if my bad eyes, fat fingers and/or defective brain screw something up. If they bother to link it, I’ll go back and edit, which means you reread the context as well as my comment.
Sometimes, they’ll message me when I’m wrong about something, or am being n asshole without justification, and I’ll go back and maybe fix it or apologize or whatever.
That’s fairly uncommon though. The most recent time I went scrolling back in time, there was a post maybe a week ago about someone putting marmite on bananas, and I said I’d try it. Took me a few days the get bananas again, so I had to scroll back to find the comment and edit it with the update. Along the way, I scanned other comments for typos and such, which meant revisiting some of the thinking and discussions conversations too
Back on reddit, I used to keep a folder of formatted comments I’d made for copy/paste, where it was useful information people would ask about often, and I’d keep those updated, which would usually end up with me trying to find previous uses of them and reading the threads as well.
But even with all that, it’s like maybe once a month I go back.