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  • My Observation: Once a post ages, it will be thrown onto into post-purgatory, a heap of dead and forgotten posts, forever, while the discussion keeps going on the 10 newest posts max.

    "Solutions" I found to this:

    • look up admins of communities. What do they post? What other communities do they moderate?
    • be patient with discovering new communities.

    Integrating randomness might help, so old posts are not buried completely … add a random page similar to wikipedias special:random article. This might also help to get a feeling for the real average content in a community.

    • It does not, people use New comments. We just interacted in a post that was 9 days old

      • I would say 9 days is quite young. The oldest post on lemmy is 6 years old.

        I use the web-interface, which by default shows you hot posts on the frontpage, you need to do some clicking to find newest comments/oldest comments but there is also no inbetween.

        • You can configure your default sort in your account settings. I have mine on New Comments.

          • I set it now in my option as well, that should boost interactivity on the fediverse, right? May I ask if you found "New comments" sort option better?

            I wish there where more sort options, some of which should introduce some randomness-factor to ease discovery of (for example) 3-year old content.

            • May I ask if you found “New comments” sort option better?

              Yes, as it allows me to find posts like yours

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