How do y’all handle reading and posting to multiple magazines on the same subject? As an example, 3D printing is a hobby of mine. I searched and found 3 different primary magazines and 2 adjacent (see below). Is there a point to the 2nd and 3rd most popular ones? Do I subscribe to them all? Do I post to one or to all? Do the lemmy.ml users see the lemmy.world posts? I’m confused.

3DPrinting@lemmy.world - 91 subscribers 3D Printing@lemmy.ml - 57 subscribers 3D printing - 50 subscribers Functional 3D Printing@kbin.social - 17 subscribers 3D Printing for All and Everything!@kbin.social - 2 subscribers

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 year ago

    Using the crosspost feature also makes them merge in some clients (or I expect it to in future versions), so it’s the technically correct way if you want your post to reach the widest audience.

    Different instances and communities have varying rules so also the post may be allowed on lemmy.ml but not programming.dev or whatever, so I just subscribe to all of them anyway. There’s only some minor UX issues with it, but lemmy is a bit of a UX mess in general because it’s still so young.