I would love to be more active in posting links to articles and websites I find interesting to the fediverse, but I find that searching for the appropriate community can be a hassle. With so many different instances hosting the same communities, it can be difficult to know where to post. Is there a Firefox extension that would allow me to quickly and easily post links to a single Lemmy community (for example https://reddthat.com/c/random)? I’m envisioning something like a bookmarking tool that lets me post the website I’m viewing with a single click. If there isn’t an existing extension that does this, I’d be interested in finding a similar program that I could use for inspiration to create one myself.
I find that searching for the appropriate community can be a hassle. With so many different instances hosting the same communities, it can be difficult to know where to post.
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I said months ago the same thing. I think the power of the fediverse IS NOT the multiple different communities. Rather the ABILITY TO create multiple different communities.
And the example I use is a community for dads. Somebody creates a community for dads and parenting advice on lemmy.world.
And then it gets popular.
So somebody else creates that same community on lemm.ee
But why? Now 40% of the dads are on lemmy.world, 20% are on lemm.ee, and 40% are on both. It would make sense if there were a problem on lemmy.world, but until there IS a problem, stop trying to fix problems that may or may not happen later.
The fediverse take a bit too much pride on the concept of being decentralized. To the point where it doesn’t feel like a united set of communities. It just feels fractured.
It’s ok to FEEL centralized…until shit goes down. The you can pull out the decentralized card, start a new community, and pull the rotten tooth. But until it’s needed, don’t add extra uneeded tooth implants.
…ok, that analogy got away from me a bit, but you guys get my point, right?
Post thoughtfully not quickly.
i hope not. people should invest little but more effort and thought into creating post for other people than they do into creating their personal bookmarks.
Same, I am not a fan of a post being only some link. Bring some of your perspective into it, even if its just 2 sentences.
Sometimes all thats relevant is the link, or the commentary would be more appropriate as a comment. For example, posting a news article to a news community or a set of patchnotes to a game’s community. At least personally, thats the majority of what I want to see: a post with a bunch of fairly direct information, and discussion of its implications in the comments.
I don’t know of any, but it sounds like a good idea as a browser extension. I’d write one if my code writing skills weren’t terrible.
If you are ever wondering what community to post in, especially deciding between one or another, pick 2 or 3 and post to all of them. People usual don’t mind a small amount of duplicate posting, if it repeats like 10 times in their feed they get annoyed though.
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