I’m usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.
In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.
That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they’re approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.
I’m usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.
But I know it’s always a debated topic.
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to “retoot” posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
But then why not just consolidate similar communities in the first place
In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.
That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they’re approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.
If the communities have actual differences, that can be interesting indeed
Sometimes it’s just because none of them wants to consolidate, while they are actually identical