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.
It would be good if a comment bumped a thread to the top of the “new” feed.
flashbacks to single word “bump” posts
I feel like Reddit’s version of bump was people commenting This all the time
This?
This!
^ this
bump
reply for visibility
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
Does the Active feed work this way?
Yeah, that’s what it does
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
There’s a “sort [posts] by new comments” option.
To me, this option works much better than “Active”, “Hot” and others.
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