If it’s a one off share thing it’s probably fine the way you do it.

I guess our perspectives are different because I’m more active on communities that are active “in the long run”, such as !buyeuropean@feddit.uk, !movies@lemm.ee, !privacy@programming.dev

Also, most of the value of Reddit and Lemmy comes from the comments. Having splintered discussions in several similar communities prevents interesting conversations from happening.

Is disagree. It means to me that there is still a preference for centralisation in the mind, which is limiting.

You still need a minimum number of active contributors to keep the communities active. If everyone wants to post to their own community, they should switch to a microblog format, there everyone has their own feed.

Communities consolidation happens all the time (see !fedigrow@lemm.ee ), because people get tired of “shouting into the void” on their community alone, and join forces with other people on a shared community.

Also, I don’t see multiple communities on different instances as a problem. We’re on the fediverse, not reddit.

It is an issue when the multiple communities have the same content and rules, and just splinter the conversation.

As someone who is doing most of the heavylifting on !buyeuropean@feddit.uk, I would rather have people posting additional content to it than just crossposting the content to a new community where nobody comments.

Examples:

• https://feddit.org/post/10451325
• https://europe.pub/post/158763
• https://feddit.nl/post/31756346
• https://europe.pub/post/140516
• https://feddit.nl/post/31722849
• https://europe.pub/post/140516

Thank you for posting this.