Why most posts (so far as I can tell) have very short lifespan tendency?

brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 85 points –

So basically 24 hours after posting, there is almost no contributions coming in, and after another 24h, it’s nearly impossible to see anybody chipping in to the subject in question. Everything goes silent, almost as if it didn’t matter anymore.

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It wasn’t an issue because whenever someone would make a comment, it would “bump” the thread back up the top of the feed (whatever form the feed took). I think the “hot” filter is supposed to take interactions into account, but I think most people just browse top 12/24 hours.

edit: “active” sort seems to do this?

The problem with the active sort is seeing the same post I've scrolled by for three days now and didn't care about in the first place. We need much easier methods to hide posts before that sort filter has any use to me.

I’m using Voyager and that’s a simple matter of a short left swipe, or the setting to hide read posts (and expanding its image or voting counts as having “read” it). But I don’t use the second and the first is tedious, so I feel similarly and don’t use anything but top (12 or 24 usually).