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
    21·
    1 year 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
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      1 year 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
        2·
        1 year ago

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

        • Midas@ymmel.nl
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          1 year 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.

          • eee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Thank you! I don’t have any expertise so I can’t help. But I think it would be useful to do top 10 (or maybe 20) posts of all time rather than 3. When starting a community, more content is needed.

            Some way to automatically import the top post per day would probably be useful too but that’s likely more complex.