Without a date or any way to source the comment, it could be something from 2-3 years ago.
Obviously it's not in this case, but it's a very real issue on reddit (in fact there was a post recently) of people debating topics that were being reposted by bots from several years ago. Basically it lets people dredge up old, already talked about topics without bringing any recent relevance to the topic.
Part of me feels like it's the subreddits fault. There should've been rules against articles/tweets that aren't timestamped. Specifically for reason of ensuring relevance
This was definitely a thing long before the blackout
Doesn't that just depend on whether or not the people maintaining are happy with the flatpak experience? If they're not, they'd probably keep maintaining their packages.