• Troy@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Lemmy (like its predecessors) is temporally arranged content. Think of it like having a discussion in a pub. Imagine bringing up a topic and someone said: but we discussed this 5 days ago, so we cannot discuss it now. Your obvious response would be: but I wasn’t here five days ago. It’s okay to repeat a conversation.

        If you want more of a hierarchical structure, use wikipedia article conversations. Then each conversation only occurs once (ish). Not encouraging repeated conversation here will lead to slow content death – like on StackOverflow.

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          10 months ago

          It also involves context; the post I replied to said it was not new. I simply noted that it occurred on slower days. My point being, you should check the dates of the source material for context. I made no judgment of the validity of that. You projected that. I agree with you It’s fine to visit the past.