No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Opinionhaver @feddit.uk 2d ago

When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well?

I guess what I'm essentially asking here is wether you mind seeing the same post several times in your feed? I've done it in the past, but also tend to feel that duplicate posts are a bit annoying.

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My personal opinion is to pick the top two or three most applicable communities and post there.

As someone who primarily browses Local or All, after seeing the third identical post it starts looking like spam.
- I second this. If I see the same question twice in two different communities, I don't see that as a problem, and if I think it's an interesting conversation starter, I'll probably look at both posts, to see all the different comments.
  
  Three feels like the limit. Any more than that is just obnoxious.
  
  Lemmy needs some sort of built-in way to merge them. That'd be the best solution I think. Then you could just pick a list of relevant communities and it'd be pretty seamless
- This is an easily solvable problem if the front end could just group posts with the same link
Lemmy is small right now, everyone will see the post if you post it once.

The only time it makes sense to do a cross post, is when two communities are diametrically opposed, and they would need safe spaces to talk amongst themselves. Like religion community, or a diet community etc
try cross posting.
- i have been on lemmy since the reddit exodus and use it every day... even post from time to time and i have no confidence at all about what cross-post means, or how to carry it out, or what the results look like.
  
  i am sure that it's very simple, but...?
  
  What client do you use? There's a cross post button on every post, which lets you post it to another community, but linking back to the original post.
Pick one, then use the Crosspost feature to link them all together.
Readers are also looking in related communities.

This also fragments any discussion.

At that point, it feels more like you're spam-pushing an opinion rather than trying to have a discussion.
Pick two communities.

Probably a “more accurate but less popular” community and a “less accurate but more popular” community.

Post in the “more accurate but less popular” one. Cross-post that to the “less accurate but more popular” one.

PS: Given your name, I’d expect you to have an opinion already.
- Given your name, I’d expect you to have an opinion already.
  
  I do but in this case my opinion doesn't matter if the masses feel differently.
Not making multispam globally against the rules is one of the biggest mistakes in Lemmy and is close to making it unusable.
- Oh no you might see something twice - unusable!

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