Title. I’m wondering what’s everyone’s take on this. On the one hand it’d mean seeing multiples of one post if you’re subscribed to equivalent communities between communities. On the other hand, right now I think a big worry is this momentum we have dying out due to lack of content.

We can’t possibly predict which community will be the “big” community across the Fediverse, so maybe cross-posts are the way to go until things grow big enough.

Thoughts?

  • eee@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 years ago

    I would personally choose one or two of the biggest, most active ones, and then cross-post.

    Quantity comes first, then quality.

    • Midas@ymmel.nl
      1·
      2 years ago

      Should we also try to automate to populate communities? There’s probably rss-type bots out there for news articles etc. But could also proxy some stuff over from certain subreddits (not through an api but just scraping). Not sure how people view that behavior.

      • eee@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 years ago

        i personally think that would help, but I don’t have the technical know-how to do it. Do you?

        • Midas@ymmel.nl
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I do, might take some time to at least figure out how to post the top 3 posts of a community automagically. If it works OK I’ll share the code and people can take it from there.