I used to just post on .world but disagree with some of their admin and mod policies so I try to post on .ml then cross post. Is it worth cross posting to even small instances or should I expect their users are on the bigger communities too? I don’t want to spam but only posting in .world misses the point of decentralization

  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Depends how active the non-LW communities are

    !movies@lemm.ee has 931 weekly active users / 2.5k monthly compared to 644 weekly active users / 1.5k monthly for !movies@lemmy.world

    https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active

    In this case you could only post to the Lemm.ee version.

    There are cases where it’s the opposite ( !parenting@lemmy.world , !homeimprovement@lemmy.world , !photography@lemmy.world ). In those cases I would only post on the LW community

  • ALERT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    A post has to be visually aggregated among several communities. The current visual representation of a post that was posted in several communities looks like spam. It would be nice for a post to have a field, that represents the community IDs of where the post is posted, and this communities should be visible as a list inside such post along with the stats (votes, comments, deleted), and this list should bring the user to this post in these communities. A user would see such post in the feed id they are following at least one community the post was posted on. the sorting could count the highest or freshest stats depending on the sorting method. the post should be possible to post in another community just by editing the “post in these communities” field while editing the post. the repost by another user should be possible and should just add the newly posted community to the field along with the already posted communities. Lemmy clients should offer the user to edit this field in their newly created post instead of copying the post multiple times. This way the spam looks like a spam and a post can have 20000 communities it was posted on and this won’t clutter the user feed. thank you

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It annoys me but I overlook it because lemmy is small. I understand why people are looking for max exposure.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    IMO its a good idea to cross-post to many communities across the fediverse, but as @davel pointed out, it can look like spam if its to a lot of only tangentially related communities.

    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thanks for your input!

      Tangentially? I don’t think that was said. But I get your point :) don’t want to do that!

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    People almost never seem to mind when something’s posted to two communities. Sometimes people will complain when it’s three communities. Any more than is likely to annoy people who browse by “All,” and then the mods will have reports in their inboxes to deal with.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      23 hours ago

      I was once asked to not post within a few seconds. Since then I’ve made a habit of waiting a few minutes between posts, since then I’ve not gotten any complaints.

    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts. My case was selfhosted for ml, world, then slrpnk. Usually just two the first too but thought it might be nice to contribute to the last one.

  • Microw@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    A lot of clients filter out the 2nd, 3rd… instance of crossposted posts in their main feeds, so only the first one gets shown. Therefore if I crosspost I do it the following way:

    1. First post it in a small community. All people who are subscribed to this community will see the post in this community.

    2. Then crosspost to a bigger community. Everyone not subscribed to the first small community will see the post in here.