Mods can you please make a feature so that the upvote given to a crosspost goes to , both the crossposted post , and the orignal post?
this will promote both the communities
thanks
I had a vaguely similar idea a while ago and someone pointed out that this could incentivize spamming posts to as many communities as possible, even communities that are only questionably relevant or not relevant at all, to farm upvotes.
what can we do so that both the communities get promoted?
What if the post isn’t particularly appropriate for one community, but very good for another? No point having it float to the top of the one it’s not the best fit for.
Like, maybe it’s still relevant on that community but shouldn’t be artificially inflated with votes from an entirely different group of people with different interests.
Nice idea, I just don’t think it would be good in practice.
What you want is Group-to-Group Following, which obviates the need for most cross-posting altogether.
https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d36d-sharing-content-across-federated-forums/3366
hopefully mods see this.
While I haven’t seen any of those communities on Lemmy yet, but what about communities that crosspost but for the completely different reasons. Like a post from “We love X” getting crossposted and made fun of over at “X is stupid”. Those two really shouldn’t be sharing up and down votes, and when we are at it what about downvotes? That makes bringing and bullying extremely easily and how would it be handled between places where one has down votes and the other have them turned off.
Why? When I post a link and at the same same formulate some opinion on it in the body of the thread, and you do the same with the same link but in another community and with your own opinion, then that’s still also a crosspost (because to Lemmy we both linked to the same site, it doesn’t care about the body of the thread). Why should those two share the upvotes/downvotes?
mutual promotion.
Let’s take an example. You have news about Biden. You post it in some community with probably your pro-Biden opinion along with it. Then you have someone else posting the same link on c/conservative with obviously an anti-Biden opinion attached to it. Why should the two mutually promote themselves?
Why should the two mutually promote themselves?
so that exchange takes place? isn’t that better? this will also help people coming to the website get rid of echo chamber mindset and be rational.
also it does not necessarily has to be only upvotes that get shared, downvotes and reports also could be.
It’s still misleading, it would make it seem as if both opinions are widely upvoted.
Also when you click at an article it opens it in new tab
