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Does it make sense to cross post to most than one community to read the most people and contribute to Lemmy being active or is that spam? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)
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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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A lot of clients filter out the 2nd, 3rd.. instance of crossposted posts in their main feeds

Which client does that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The default Lemmy-UI (website), IDK about others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Apparently Photon also has that option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d also like to know

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tbh I'm parroting what others have told me, I' not sure which clients do that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Got it. I don’t think voyager does :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That’s smart! I was doing ml then world. Maybe I’ll go even smaller :)