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?
Going by the post I linked, it appears to be a limitation on PieFed and seemingly also on its forks.
I will open a feature request on Pavlova’s issue tracker from Codeberg.
Thanks, would be nice to see this in the future.
So for now, should I just copy the link of my post and post it as a link post to other communities? Will that cross-post correctly?
The feature request:
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/Pavlova/issues/3
About your idea, let me try to explain:
When you make a post in PieFed, and presumably to Pavlova, there’s a form you need to fill.
This form has fields like title, tags, link, etc. which you fill to publish as a post, similar to Reddit.
And also similar to Reddit, it has different types of forms for different types of posts.
If you want to post, e.g., an article from PC Gamer, you’d usually pick the link form. If you just want to ask or say something, you pick the discussion form. And so on.
Your post would be your own words, so linking elsewhere would already be hardly justifiable.
And if you make a discussion post, you can’t cross-post.
If you make a post in one of the two meditation communities and then link it on the post to the other, I can think of 3 problems.
First, there wouldn’t be any other communities to cross-post to.
Second, it could be seen as offensive to the second community and any tangential ones you cross-post to, as you’d be leeching the given communities by indirectly saying “go to this community to interact”.
Third, it could be seen as spam.
As community-based fediverse instances often group similar posts together, personally I’d suggest to just manually make the same post as a discussion post on both communities. Or pick the bigger of the two, either by subscribers or monthly active users (MAU).
ok, that makes more sense.
So basically just copy the post content in a new post to the other community.
The only disadvantage I can think of is that piefed is supposed to combine the comments of cross-posts to other communities right? Does that feature also only work with link posts?
I’m not familiar with PieFed to that extent, so sadly can’t tell.
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