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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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[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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

I'd be happy to post any questions I have there. I tend to be online very infrequently though, so it might not be that helpful.

[–] 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.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Starting on NoStupidQuestions is a good place to start. Usually get a few general answers and recommendation to the proper community

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nostupidquestions is for questions you've been hesitant to ask for fear of sounding stupid, my favorite example being "am I supposed to wash a hoodie every time I wear it?"

I don't really think that applies here. Asklemmy is the general questions community

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Suppose I'd also viewed nostupidquestions as a home for short form answers to simple questions that aren't otherwise easily searchable and asklemmy/reddit as a place more for discussion over more complicated topics

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ideally you've been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).

Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you're on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.

So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).

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

Thank you, that's helpful.

I'm very bad at remembering all the communities though.
Even though I used reddit before and knew AskReddit, I didn't think about AskLemmy at all.

Search for relevant communities.

Look at what instance they are hosted on.

Choose the one that isn't hosted on Lemmy.world

Post there to try and help foster engagement in communities away from .world

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

These

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

!justpost@lemmy.world

Are to post anything.

--//--

And check TOMT if you can't remember the name of some media.

!tipofmytongue@lemmy.world

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Normal question: AskLemmy

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

Stupid question: NoStupidQuestions

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

This should be a note on the sidebar of all ask-* subs.

[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NoStupidQuestions explicitly disallows stupid questions tho /j

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

Yeah. Stupid questions should be posted to YesStupidQuestions.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I usually post on the one with more people. Then, without any answer, I’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 1 week ago

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

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Step 1, check if triad owned community.

If it is, ask elsewhere.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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. 😓🙃

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 0 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.