I used to just post on .world but disagree with some of their admin and mod policies so I try to post on .ml then cross post. Is it worth cross posting to even small instances or should I expect their users are on the bigger communities too? I don’t want to spam but only posting in .world misses the point of decentralization
Depends how active the non-LW communities are
!movies@lemm.ee has 931 weekly active users / 2.5k monthly compared to 644 weekly active users / 1.5k monthly for !movies@lemmy.world
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active
In this case you could only post to the Lemm.ee version.
There are cases where it’s the opposite ( !parenting@lemmy.world , !homeimprovement@lemmy.world , !photography@lemmy.world ). In those cases I would only post on the LW community
Thanks for the examples! So would you say cross posting is helpful or annoying?
As I said, depends on the context 😄
The question isn’t just anti world decentralization but just spreading it in general to reach each community :)
For that, I prefer to generally post on one community.
Crossposting seems to indicate that two communities should be consolidated.