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This may be a stupid question, but how do you decide in what community to ask questions? (quokk.au)

submitted 20 hours ago by AloneDownUnder@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Normal question: AskLemmy

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

Stupid question: NoStupidQuestions

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

NoStupidQuestions explicitly disallows stupid questions tho /j

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

Yeah. Stupid questions should be posted to YesStupidQuestions.

[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So AskLemmy is ok for any kind of question?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So far as I am aware, the kinds of questions meant fot that community are supposed to open-ended ones to have a conversation center around; not exactly for things you wsnt a single answer for.

[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So asking what headphones to buy for my budget is better for the specific community, but asking what meditation techniques have you found helpful and why is ok for AskLemmy?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 4 hours ago

Yep :)