well first off this would be perfect for no stupid questions. especially since some accounts have taken it as a troll challenge. I say post to both and maybe a more active general community as well. Sometimes cross posting helps people learn that communities exist.
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If you're not asking in shitpost are you even asking?
Hey bro be the change you want to see in the world. Help me build the meditation community.
https://vger.to/feddit.online/c/meditation
If you post a thread, I will respond.
I'd be happy to post any questions I have there. I tend to be online very infrequently though, so it might not be that helpful.
Community mention, to reach through web browsers: !meditation@feddit.online
Also added to Threadirator (the site allows private submissions)
And since I don't do meditation, I wouldn't know what to say to promote the community, but to those that do, I'd suggest making a post about it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too.
Normal question: AskLemmy
Technical question: Tech support community for thing I am asking about.
Stupid question: NoStupidQuestions
This should be a note on the sidebar of all ask-* subs.
So AskLemmy is ok for any kind of question?
Yes it’s a general ask community for asking questions
Lots of questions are for conversation, some for advice, some asking unusual questions. It’s not super active but people are there
So far as I am aware, the kinds of questions meant fot that community are supposed to open-ended ones to have a conversation center around; not exactly for things you wsnt a single answer for.
So asking what headphones to buy for my budget is better for the specific community, but asking what meditation techniques have you found helpful and why is ok for AskLemmy?
Yep :)
NoStupidQuestions explicitly disallows stupid questions tho /j
Yeah. Stupid questions should be posted to YesStupidQuestions.
I usually post on the one with more people. Then, without any answer, I’d crosspost.
Crossposting is something I try to avoid as it creates another post. It would be nice if crossposting allowed people from both instance to see and answer in the same message.
Piefed allows that. I know, piefed yada yada, but it's there.
Oh good. I’m happy with Lemmy/voyager so I wouldn’t want to switch. Let’s hope they implement it at one point 🤞
It would be nice if crossposting allowed people from both instance to see and answer in the same message.
Piefed does this.
How to crosspost?
Do I just create a new post and put a link to the original post?
Search for relevant communities.
Look at what instance they are hosted on.
Choose the one that isn't hosted on Lemmy.world
Post there to try and help foster engagement in communities away from .world
Link me to whatever .world controversies are afoot, please. Haven't heard.
There has been some recent drama relating to the usual knee jerk defederation of an entire instance based on one admins personal opinion but I don't have any links.
The dog shit admins / moderators aside my main issue is placing so many communities on that one instance just re-centralises things again and that is very bad for the fediverse as a whole imo
Too big and centralisation concerns
Post to one, crosspost that to the other
How to crosspost? Just make a link post and paste the link to the other post?
Your instance claims to be running a PieFed fork.
If the functions it inherits from PieFed are unchanged, this should be true:
https://piefed.social/post/1134894
Also checked in an alt account I have in a PieFed instance and indeed, the button only appears when it is a link post:
@AloneDownUnder@quokk.au also, checking the post creation form from PieFed, near the bottom, it has a "tags" field. If your instance inherits this too, I'd suggest adding tags related to your question, as then microblog users (e.g. from Mastodon and Misskey) may find your post too, to increase the reach of the post.
That's a good idea, I'll try that!
This would be helpful, but so it's not possible if it's a discussion post? I don't see this button on this post for example.
Going by the post I linked, it appears to be a limitation on PieFed and seemingly also on its forks.
I will open a feature request on Pavlova's issue tracker from Codeberg.
Thanks, would be nice to see this in the future.
So for now, should I just copy the link of my post and post it as a link post to other communities? Will that cross-post correctly?
The feature request:
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/Pavlova/issues/3
About your idea, let me try to explain:
When you make a post in PieFed, and presumably to Pavlova, there's a form you need to fill.
This form has fields like title, tags, link, etc. which you fill to publish as a post, similar to Reddit.
And also similar to Reddit, it has different types of forms for different types of posts.
If you want to post, e.g., an article from PC Gamer, you'd usually pick the link form. If you just want to ask or say something, you pick the discussion form. And so on.
Your post would be your own words, so linking elsewhere would already be hardly justifiable.
And if you make a discussion post, you can't cross-post.
If you make a post in one of the two meditation communities and then link it on the post to the other, I can think of 3 problems.
First, there wouldn't be any other communities to cross-post to.
Second, it could be seen as offensive to the second community and any tangential ones you cross-post to, as you'd be leeching the given communities by indirectly saying "go to this community to interact".
Third, it could be seen as spam.
As community-based fediverse instances often group similar posts together, personally I'd suggest to just manually make the same post as a discussion post on both communities. Or pick the bigger of the two, either by subscribers or monthly active users (MAU).
Ah you're the person who put that up! I've since added those features to cross-post discussions and images.
ok, that makes more sense.
So basically just copy the post content in a new post to the other community.
The only disadvantage I can think of is that piefed is supposed to combine the comments of cross-posts to other communities right? Does that feature also only work with link posts?
I believe it does it based on url/post name.
BTW I've modified our code to accept cross-posting discussions and images, so this shouldn't be an issue in the future.
Wow thanks, that's great!
I'm not familiar with PieFed to that extent, so sadly can't tell.
Ideally you've been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).
Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you're on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.
So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).
Thank you, that's helpful.
I'm very bad at remembering all the communities though.
Even though I used reddit before and knew AskReddit, I didn't think about AskLemmy at all.
Starting on NoStupidQuestions is a good place to start. Usually get a few general answers and recommendation to the proper community
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
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
These
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Are to post anything.
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And check TOMT if you can't remember the name of some media.
I think you just got to pick a relevant ish community and fucking send it. A lot of the stuff is news posts so it can feel out of place but at the end of the day I think we all prefer discussion threads with humans asking and answering each others questions.
Step 1, check if triad owned community.
If it is, ask elsewhere.
It looks like the Flotilla that is allying itself hard with the Triad is also becoming problematic. e.g. it seems to either be initiating walling itself off from other instances or at least strongly okay to have that happen to it, playing up the "victim" angle heavily (despite every shot having been fired so far being initiated by them, afaict).
I wonder what term this will eventually be called - like maybe Triad+? :-P Regardless, it's so sad to see hexbear leaking, that is always the problem with the Paradox of Intolerance. 😓🙃
The Threadiverse seems poised to split into two factions based on whether people are pro-murder enough for others' tastes. e.g. if you think that luigi should be a noun rather than a verb then they don't want you to continue to exist, either irl or here on the Threadiverse.
The Left, like Veganism, always eats its own, thereby often causing the Right (in this case Reddit, Xhitter, and Meta/Facebook) to win, since utopia is only a place that can exist in theory (it requires too much work to implement in practice, which people are typically not willing to put forth).
Edit: example call (scroll down to read the GIANT TEXT part - you literally cannot miss it) for the entire Flotilla to defederate from the Western/European/democratic Lemmy.World, and if you click the username, also a call to cease and desist from using any and all PieFed instances (regardless of stance of each particular instance owner, admins, or moderators). Here is also a second example, calling to boycott all use of Lemmy.World (read the non-conditional title statement, even if the post text walks that back a bit - and to be clear, not merely avoid using it because it is too large and centralized and it would be healthier for the Threadiverse to spread out more, a phenomena that most people agree with, but for the political reasons that it is "Zionist"). The repeated calls to defederate, from multiple people, makes me think that the Flotilla is eventually going to do it, becoming like an anti-Beehaw (where instead of enforcing the rules to be nice, people will be even more free than now to call for irl murders, without any pushback from mods or even admins), aka shifting more along the spectrum to become like 4chan. I am starting to call it a "free speech" network since you can make all the "free speech" you want... so long as they approve of it, unless you piss off a mod in which case they (self-admittedly) use AI (both detection tools, despite their high failure rate, and even so much as providing the exact text placed into the modlog, with seemingly little to no human effort placed into reviewing those reasons) to help ban you from communities you've literally never so much as heard of before. This is exactly the behavior of the Alt-Right, whatever name they want to call it by.
It looks like the Flotilla that is allying itself hard with the Triad is also becoming problematic.
Make things up much?
Edit: example call (scroll down to read the GIANT TEXT part - you literally cannot miss it) for the entire Flotilla to defederate from the Western/European/democratic Lemmy.World,
Wow, yes you do make things up much. This is a mutual pact that if any one of us gets defederated first, that we will respond in kind. It is not a call to defederate from .world.
I understand you're on team let the Palestinians be murdered, but those of us on the left abhor such genocide. While you're invested in attacking the left to promote right-wing liberal politics that fund, arm, and enable such atrocities, some of us have ethics and want to resist such evils.
Ideally you've been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).
Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you're on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.
So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).