Am I making sense with that?

Example– a very popular founder and content-creator upon multiple history subs recently retired. Now, I’ve tried to create at least a slow trickle of content with their departure (!historyart@piefed.social is one of the places), but a couple weeks ago someone made a comment that they missed the old days of ~10 new posts a day. Fair! Then I reminded them that there’s 2,000+ posts already made in that community, and whenever they wanted to enjoy more content by the founder, well… it was just sitting there waiting for them.

*crickets*

TBH, that also seems to be the case with my own community. We’re coming up on 700 posts now across 3+yrs, and I’ve put considerable work in to most of those posts, trying to make them mini-articles/editorials as often as possible, but it’s the same thing… very few people want to look through the older content. It’s like everything has to live and die on the stream, so to speak.

I mean-- is automated-posting and doomscrolling just the way it is, these days? And if so, does that have something to do with most people now browsing the Fediverse by mobile, instead of desktop?

Thanks for your opinions on this stuff. I’m honestly kinda baffled…

  • Melobol@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    I think it is how our brains were trained.
    These sites - do not help with older content. This is a perfect example to an other post about how Internet used to have spaces.
    Lemmy isn’t designed for long term - “let’s go back” content. Not even WordPress is.
    Tho over there you can have tags and groups for articles so you can read it more easily.
    At this point probably a wikia-type site would work better for readingbolder posts, but obviously not good for engagement and convos.