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.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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This is an easily solvable problem if the front end could just group posts with the same link
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
I think the crossposting feature lemmy has effectively does this, but I'm not sure
It's about halfway there I think, they still show up separately in clients and have separate comments threads.
Correct. It does not funnel all the conversation into the same post, which is probably most people’s preference.
Oh weird, I would not have expected to be in the minority there
For me it’s easy to imagine an article being linked to two communities that are going to have drastically different takes.
[email protected] and [email protected] for example.
Now I can see wanting to have a discussion across both communities, but I can also see /c/cars wanting discuss cars without having every conversation devolve into an argument or admonishment.
As I was writing this another problem came to mind. You have a pooled discussion across two or more communities with two or more moderation policies. How could that be reconciled?
I think you've convinced me that it's a slightly more complicated problem than I initially gave it credit for; thank you for that!
I think you could solve for the disparate community theme problem by also requiring title match for mergers. You could probably also solve for it by having a 2-way merger whitelist on links. E.g community A and B both maintain lists of "similar" communities and then if A's list contains B and vice-versa they would merge.
Comment moderation I got nothing though. That's a tough one.
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.
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.
thanks. i took a moment to find it (boost). but it now leads me back to the OP question...
if a crosspost came up during my lemmy scroll, it will probably look exactly the same as if i had made the post to each community individually. so is crossposting a meaningful alternative?
Well, its convienient, and it links back to the original post.
Pick one, then use the Crosspost feature to link them all together.
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!
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.