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Cross posting best practices? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Just wondering if anyone has ideas around best practices for cross posting articles?

I recently setup !fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com and mainly only post to that community, with no cross posting.

My thinking was that it's probably best for subscribers/readers to crosspost to other communities, rather than me "spamming" the articles to other communities.

But I'm not sure it's the best way to go, since it's kind of hard to get traction with a new community initially.

Any thoughts on what is a good practice way to go about increasing visibility of the community a bit more, without annoying people? Or is it maybe best to stick to the current approach and let things happen organically?

Edit: I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to provide feedback on this post. I got a lot of useful info, and will incorporate your suggestions in future.

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I do think people should crosspost more, and not just their own posts

kinda off-topic, but lately when I do cross-posts I like to add the original community link at the top (just in case people are viewing from an instance that isn't federated with it, or their client doesn't show the cross-posts correctly)

like if you crosspost this post, the default body text will start with:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29508559

but you could add the community like this

cross-posted from: !fedigrow@lemm.ee | https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29508559

been thinking of submitting a pull request to do this automatically, but I'd have to setup my test environment again... if anyone wants to do this, the code is here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/0.19.6-beta.9/src/shared/components/post/post-listing.tsx#L956-L965 in the crossPostBody function, it might be good at least until Lemmy supports instance-agnostic links to posts

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

As someone viewing Lemmy posts from outside Lemmy, I hope your PR can get submitted!

[–] Blaze 3 points 1 month ago

That would be useful indeed!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Love that idea, and I just updated the crosspost handling in the dev branch of Tesseract to work that way:

[–] Blaze 2 points 1 month ago

Nice