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?
Starting on NoStupidQuestions is a good place to start. Usually get a few general answers and recommendation to the proper community
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.
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.
Normal question: AskLemmy
Technical question: Tech support community for thing I am asking about.
Stupid question: NoStupidQuestions
So AskLemmy is ok for any kind of question?
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.
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).
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.
Too big and centralisation concerns
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 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.
How to crosspost?
Do I just create a new post and put a link to the original post?It would be nice if crossposting allowed people from both instance to see and answer in the same message.
Piefed does this.
Post to one, crosspost that to the other
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.
