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.
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:
but you could add the community like this
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
crossPostBodyfunction, it might be good at least until Lemmy supports instance-agnostic links to postsAs someone viewing Lemmy posts from outside Lemmy, I hope your PR can get submitted!
Love that idea, and I just updated the crosspost handling in the dev branch of Tesseract to work that way:
Nice
That would be useful indeed!