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Posts to multiple instances? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by YoTcA@feddit.de to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I am wondering at the moment how to handle the different communities on the various instances that are covering the same topic: For example there is a technology community on nearly every instance. If I now want to create a post, do I just post this to one instance to avoid spam (I think most users are subscribed to multiple technology communities like myself) or is it better to post it to multiple instances to create more content and also support smaller instances?

At the moment I lean towards only posting to one instance, because I think there is no way to hide/ignore a post in the feed, when it shows up multiple times.

What do you guys think?

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[–] YoTcA@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this approach. Only downside I see is, that it makes communities on smaller instances kind of irrelevant unless they are specializing on a more exotic view on a subject (maybe a conservative take in politics vs a progressive view). Is this not creating a big concentration of „relevant“/big communities on the big instances? I get the feeling any @lemmy.ml or @beehaw.org are on a good way to be the standard/go to instances for communities.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

They're not irrelevant, they're just small.

There used to be a thoduand different, I don't know, Sailor Moon forums out there. Some where small, some were big. Some may have been inactive, but I promise you that the small actives ones were not insignificant to the people who used them, and the people who used them did so for reasons beyond not knowing the big ones existed.

There's zero reason for everyone to be in the same place. It doesn't provide a benefit. It just silences the voice in the back of some people's minds that tells them they might be missing out on something because it's somewhere else.

Different instances are different communities. Different communities have different things to day about different topics. Let them have their spaces. It's not like they don't have direct and immediate access to the "big" forums here, if they have anything they want to share there.