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...
I think it's for different moods. When discovering a new community, I can spend a couple hours looking through several pages' worth of of All Time Top posts, but for daily quick visits I just look at 1-2 pages of the Hot feed of my subscribed communities. If something doesn't make it there, I'll likely miss it. (I occasionally venture over to the Scaled feed too.)
I don't think I ever looked through a community's entire back catalogue though. Though tbf I did most of my deep diving on reddit, where it just wasn't practical with the volume of posts (also like 10+ pages in it often started to feel like I was down to the dregs in quality). But it may be more practical on Lemmy/PieFed.
I'm sure it's a processing issue or whatever, but I wish communities for let you sort by old-new.