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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by AloneDownUnder@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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?

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Normal question: AskLemmy

Technical question: Tech support community for thing I am asking about.

Stupid question: NoStupidQuestions

[-] dihutenosa@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

NoStupidQuestions explicitly disallows stupid questions tho /j

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Stupid questions should be posted to YesStupidQuestions.

[-] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

If you're not asking in shitpost are you even asking?

Post to one, crosspost that to the other

[-] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

How to crosspost? Just make a link post and paste the link to the other post?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Your instance claims to be running a PieFed fork.

If the functions it inherits from PieFed are unchanged, this should be true:
https://piefed.social/post/1134894

Also checked in an alt account I have in a PieFed instance and indeed, the button only appears when it is a link post:

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

@AloneDownUnder@quokk.au also, checking the post creation form from PieFed, near the bottom, it has a "tags" field. If your instance inherits this too, I'd suggest adding tags related to your question, as then microblog users (e.g. from Mastodon and Misskey) may find your post too, to increase the reach of the post.

[-] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

That's a good idea, I'll try that!

[-] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

This would be helpful, but so it's not possible if it's a discussion post? I don't see this button on this post for example.

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Going by the post I linked, it appears to be a limitation on PieFed and seemingly also on its forks.

I will open a feature request on Pavlova's issue tracker from Codeberg.

[-] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, would be nice to see this in the future.
So for now, should I just copy the link of my post and post it as a link post to other communities? Will that cross-post correctly?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

The feature request:
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/Pavlova/issues/3

About your idea, let me try to explain:
When you make a post in PieFed, and presumably to Pavlova, there's a form you need to fill.
This form has fields like title, tags, link, etc. which you fill to publish as a post, similar to Reddit.
And also similar to Reddit, it has different types of forms for different types of posts.
If you want to post, e.g., an article from PC Gamer, you'd usually pick the link form. If you just want to ask or say something, you pick the discussion form. And so on.
Your post would be your own words, so linking elsewhere would already be hardly justifiable.
And if you make a discussion post, you can't cross-post.
If you make a post in one of the two meditation communities and then link it on the post to the other, I can think of 3 problems.
First, there wouldn't be any other communities to cross-post to.
Second, it could be seen as offensive to the second community and any tangential ones you cross-post to, as you'd be leeching the given communities by indirectly saying "go to this community to interact".
Third, it could be seen as spam.

As community-based fediverse instances often group similar posts together, personally I'd suggest to just manually make the same post as a discussion post on both communities. Or pick the bigger of the two, either by subscribers or monthly active users (MAU).

[-] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 0 points 1 week ago

Hey bro be the change you want to see in the world. Help me build the meditation community.

https://vger.to/feddit.online/c/meditation

If you post a thread, I will respond.

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

Community mention, to reach through web browsers: !meditation@feddit.online

Also added to Threadirator (the site allows private submissions)

And since I don't do meditation, I wouldn't know what to say to promote the community, but to those that do, I'd suggest making a post about it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too.

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

I usually post on the one with more people. Then, without any answer, Iโ€™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.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Piefed allows that. I know, piefed yada yada, but it's there.

[-] Zomg@piefed.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Step 1, check if triad owned community.

If it is, ask elsewhere.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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. ๐Ÿ˜“๐Ÿ™ƒ

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.

[-] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It looks like the Flotilla that is allying itself hard with the Triad is also becoming problematic.

Make things up much?

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,

Wow, yes you do make things up much. This is a mutual pact that if any one of us gets defederated first, that we will respond in kind. It is not a call to defederate from .world.

I understand you're on team let the Palestinians be murdered, but those of us on the left abhor such genocide. While you're invested in attacking the left to promote right-wing liberal politics that fund, arm, and enable such atrocities, some of us have ethics and want to resist such evils.

this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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