When making a new post, I often can't remember right away which community it would be most relevant to. Sometimes it's pretty obvious, but other times I have to scroll through the list and find the one I'm looking for or one that might be a good fit.

Now, I know that there are specific communities like !community_community@slrpnk.net that is for this purpose as well, but I was wondering if it would be useful to have a simple automated solution sort of like how github searches for issues to see if your question (post) has already been asked.

I'd be curious to know other's thoughts on the matter and if you think something like this could be a helpful addition or not.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This doesn't sound like you're trying to thoughtfully engage with any community on the network, and are, instead, wanting to mindlessly optimize the reach| ofr whatever it is you're trying to slap your user name on.

My thoughts are, decide who you're engaging with first, and treat each Lemmy community as a community, not an audience.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

[…] treat each Lemmy community as a community, not an audience.

I think it depends on the community in question, and the nature of the post. If, for example, one is looking for an answer to a question, or help with something, I would argue that one would, generally, want to target the largest relevant audience to maximize the surface area of potential people who can help. At any rate, more specifically, I don't think it's one or the other, but rather both — one would want to find the largest and the most relevant community. By my experience, another common behavior is to cross-post to multiple communities. This seems to be especially more common in a federated forum like Lemmy where there could be any number of duplicate communities.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 5 points 5 days ago

This, so much. And it is something I try to tell myself several times a day I spend online.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Harsh, and not what people wanna hear. But correct.