You feed the community you want to see grow. If I was concerned about community size, I'd still be on reddit. You could post to the Beehaw community, which may mean more views, or you could contribute to your local instance's community, which will show people that it is active, which will lead to people posting there as well, which will lead to growth. Or you could always post to both.
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Well, Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world, so I guess no more views.
Is there an easy way to cross post on here?
Here's how to cross post.
I new here as well, so maybe, but I wouldn't know. I just usually post both times seperately, maybe making small changes to the title.
You can crosspost
I mean post it on both. It’s no different than the age old issue on Reddit of having two similar but slightly different tech subreddits where your content would fit on both. That’s what cross posting is for. I’m not sure if you can simply cross post on Lemmy but even if you can’t just post it on each community separately, it doesn’t make any difference.
Should you draw a picture if a more popular artist has already made it, or should you do what you enjoy?
What if Lemmy had something like multireddits. So when you have several communities talking about the same thing, you can get a merged feed.
I think instances will eventually develop into hosts for specific topics, but that's not a bad thing. You can still startup a new community on any instance. I think smaller communities will be spread over all instances.
This is not the worst idea I have heard. I think it would be really cool if people could get local instances going for their cities. Then have the communities be based on topics relating to said city.
It’s like everybody forgot hashtags aren’t just a meme