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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] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Depends how active the non-LW communities are

[email protected] has 931 weekly active users / 2.5k monthly compared to 644 weekly active users / 1.5k monthly for [email protected]

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active

In this case you could only post to the Lemm.ee version.

There are cases where it's the opposite ( [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] ). In those cases I would only post on the LW community

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

Thanks for the examples! So would you say cross posting is helpful or annoying?

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

As I said, depends on the context 😄

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

The question isn’t just anti world decentralization but just spreading it in general to reach each community :)

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

For that, I prefer to generally post on one community.

Crossposting seems to indicate that two communities should be consolidated.