<![CDATA[It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do.]]>RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116944318046104194

It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do.

It really makes you realise how much recency bias there is in most other systems, including most web forum software. Sometimes that’s useful (I don’t want obsolete solutions to be highlighted in preference to the ones that actually work), but it also makes writing there seem ephemeral. Here, a conversation can start up after two years of silence when someone comes up with something new to contribute. And that’s incredible.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/130a1d75-e0f1-43c7-87f6-b451484c0569/it-s-fascinating-seeing-notifications-for-boosts-here-where-something-you-wrote-a-year-or-two-ago-will-suddenly-be-found-by-someone-who-boosts-it-and-then-a-little-flurry-of-other-people-do.RSS for NodeFri, 24 Jul 2026 04:25:49 GMTSun, 19 Jul 2026 08:08:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:27:27 GMT]]>@crittero @david_chisnall I can't name a single forum I've ever visited where necroposting was allowed, and I've been around in the dialup era.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/landelare/statuses/116946635841662471https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/landelare/statuses/116946635841662471Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:27:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:23:37 GMT]]>@landelare @david_chisnall I'm just guessing, but I think necroposting rules are usually part of news-focused forums.

And since replying to a thread meant that the entire thread would show up as "Latest" in the list, people would get mad for basically reviving old news.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crittero/statuses/116946620712392467https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crittero/statuses/116946620712392467Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:23:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:03:32 GMT]]>@TheOneDoc @david_chisnall I've often thought that the fediverse is a cross between LiveJournal and Tumblr.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/onepict/statuses/116946305874768319https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/onepict/statuses/116946305874768319Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:03:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:55:35 GMT]]>@david_chisnall well, yes, but I do feel the blogging style of information sharing is a net loss compared to what we had before.

I miss the old web where people would curate and structure information instead of today where everything is an unstructured stream of fragments.

It was hard work and therefore few people did it well, but it seems like around 2002-2005 almost everyone stopped trying.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/mk/statuses/116946274561729839https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/mk/statuses/116946274561729839Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:55:04 GMT]]>@david_chisnall Twitter behaved like this at its high point for user experience. When it went away is when I lost interest.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/copiesofcopies/statuses/116946272561514310https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/copiesofcopies/statuses/116946272561514310Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:55:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:49:15 GMT]]>@crittero @david_chisnall I'll never understand why that's a problem. If anything, it's a forum UI problem, add a thin, but prominent indicator between posts with a large gap that says something like "2 years later" and everybody knows what's up.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/landelare/statuses/116946249648693544https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/landelare/statuses/116946249648693544Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:49:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:46:44 GMT]]>@david_chisnall @catsalad Also, very important to fill out your profile and pin some posts there. XKCD hits this just right with https://xkcd.com/1053/. I get favorites and boosts on my pinned posts from people that just ran across my account

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116946239767233185https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116946239767233185Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:46:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:58:54 GMT]]>@david_chisnall
> Here, a conversation can start up after two years of silence when someone comes up with something new to contribute. And that’s incredible.

Which is a bit funny, considering how annoyed forum moderators used to get when you "necroposted".

"Thread locked. Continue the discussion in a new post." ok, nerd...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crittero/statuses/116946051726338226https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crittero/statuses/116946051726338226Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:58:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:45:13 GMT]]>@david_chisnall funny thing is Tumblr is really good at that.

Just the other day my account there turned 13 and someone actually, by chance reblogged my very first post there.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116945997902827845https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116945997902827845Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:45:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do. on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:10:41 GMT]]>@david_chisnall definitely

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KXWPTT8WTX7ZD8ZACHSN3JX1https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KXWPTT8WTX7ZD8ZACHSN3JX1Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:10:41 GMT