I want to try asking more questions online since it has become so difficult to find things with search engines.

But I don’t really know where to post my questions?
How do you decide what community to post to?

For example:
I have a question about meditation.
This looks pretty straightforward, I search for ‘meditation’ under all communities.
I find 2 communities called Meditation. (I can find more if I search on another lemmy instance, but they don’t seem to show up on my current instance)
Both of them look rather inactive.

Do I just post to both of them? Is it possible to post to multiple communities simultaneously?
Should I look for other communities, what to search for?

  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Starting on NoStupidQuestions is a good place to start. Usually get a few general answers and recommendation to the proper community

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Nostupidquestions is for questions you’ve been hesitant to ask for fear of sounding stupid, my favorite example being “am I supposed to wash a hoodie every time I wear it?”

      I don’t really think that applies here. Asklemmy is the general questions community

      • CobblerScholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Suppose I’d also viewed nostupidquestions as a home for short form answers to simple questions that aren’t otherwise easily searchable and asklemmy/reddit as a place more for discussion over more complicated topics