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This may be a stupid question, but how do you decide in what community to ask questions? (quokk.au)
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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?

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[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Starting on NoStupidQuestions is a good place to start. Usually get a few general answers and recommendation to the proper community

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nostupidquestions is for questions you've been hesitant to ask for fear of sounding stupid, my favorite example being "am I supposed to wash a hoodie every time I wear it?"

I don't really think that applies here. Asklemmy is the general questions community

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Suppose I'd also viewed nostupidquestions as a home for short form answers to simple questions that aren't otherwise easily searchable and asklemmy/reddit as a place more for discussion over more complicated topics