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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)
submitted 11 months ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Microw@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (7 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.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

Which client does that?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

Apparently Photon also has that option.

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