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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

I recently setup [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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: [email protected] | 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