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CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Apologies, I do that with some thought behind it but I’m sure it annoys people.

The general thing is that you can post in a niche community, get limited engagement and only the niche benefits.

Or you can post in a large community, then the niche community suffers and appears inactive.

Or you can do what I did and cross post it, annoying people that exist in all 3 places but making the niche community active while engaging the larger community.

Is that bad? Judging by your comment, yes. I’m concerned Lemmy has an issue though with niches not appearing in those larger communities though specifically because no one cross posts. Thoughts?

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stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Lemmy really needs to support post combining somehow so you can see the story once (and maybe even combine the threads in the UI?).

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- zecg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a proper way to solve it, I agree.
  
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emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m on Team Crosspost, although duplicates marginally annoy me too. Because of the low content volume and the potentially fractured nature of Lemmy means more people will see it in the event of blocked instances. Although, I hope crosspost combining becomes a thing like alex@lemmy.ml mentioned.

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- CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The idea with cross posts should be that large and general communities like the “Gaming” community or whatever is where cross posts from niche communities go. And if you browse there, expect duplicates.
  
  What that does is allow everyone to browse the larger communities, especially when they join, and see it as a sort of hub for their topic of interest.
  
  And it works out because if I can go to the main topic community and see content from retro gaming communities, patient gamers, gaming news, and maybe gaming hardware releases then we have a more cohesive community instead of fractured ones. It’s easier to engage that way and also prevents the large communities from becoming just spam with no OC in it. But I do agree, a way to eliminate multiple notifications or placements of my posts would be great to make it a topic instead.
  
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