I wonder if there are any technical reasons with maybe ActivityPub that old posts might have to eventually be archived?

But I enjoy the idea of never archiving or at least keeping posts open for a long time like 10 years. I'm not sure why but there is something special aboaut old threads being revived or kept alive. I had this one comment on Reddit where I purchased a product and months and years later people would still respond asking if it was still working or if I'd still recommend it. This I is like "The internet never forgets" but in a good way.

I can't believe we're the only ones here. The first post ever on Lemmy, this is some rare meme archaeology here

2019-04-20 21h39 or 22h39 utc
oldest lemmy comment in
oldest lemmy post.
... account inactive since then.

Yes

what was /post/1? what are they hiding??

I agree!