I've been adding communities that we're missing, and adding content to populate the site. Sometimes this content applies to multiple communities, so I tried crossposting and it was so easy!

On top of that, reading articles outside of the site then trying to post it here but I'm worried I might be duplicating posts. It's so easy to see that the content was already posted and I can just link to it.

When someone edits that cross post, it also shows up in other places too. I think that's how it works. People cross-posted my posts for the first time and when they added content to the body, it showed up in the other locations too.

You can see which communities cross posted as well, and go to those communities too. It helps in knowing where to cross post in the future.

I'm really loving this feature and it's making populating content so easy. Thank you!

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[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had no idea cross posting had all those features implemented. I do really love the fact that when you go to post something you can see if it’s a duplicate. Lemmy has amazing ground work built as to where I can see it really being something great

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You're gonna have to set your browser in desktop mode and try it out. :)

[–] cocolopez@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

May I ask what communities? Been trying to rebuild my list.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have a look here => https://browse.feddit.de/

[–] MarsAgainstVenus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Or even better yet: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] ppptan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] jcb2016_@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago

@ppptan @_MoveSwiftly @cocolopez Thanks for this link. Bookmarked

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Take a look at my profile and you'll see what I'm moderating. :)

[–] simple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally agree. Crossposting was one of the wonkiest features on Reddit because instead of reposting the content, it just posts a link to the original post. It's weird and always encouraged people to never use it. Lemmy's crossposting is super straightforward in comparison, I expect to see people using it a lot more as time passes.

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man. Cross posting on Reddit is so difficult, and every community makes it even worse by adding more complication on top of it. You end up posting on each instead of cross posting.

Yes, me too. :)

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the mechanism for crossposting?

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

looks like the little copy icon with two squares.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking this is one of those features that's going to take the average user a while to understand, especially coming from somewhere like Reddit where the idea of crossposting is sharing a URL back to the original post