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This is a little confusing because you also re-post* questions from non-.ml users. [example] [example] [example] I guess you mean you're copying questions that were posted by people on any instance to communities hosted on lemmy.ml. Yes?

Yea, I only monitor .ml comms, specifically I monitor the RSS feed provided by .ml

*(I say re-post because you do it without using the cross-post feature, so we can't see the sources.)

I think I now understand what you're trying to do, but I'm skeptical. As someone on the receiving end of your copypasta, what I see is a flood of posts from a single account dominating some of the forums that I frequent. The pattern resembles that of a bot, casts an unauthentic tint on the content of your posts, and makes the signal-to-noise ratio of the receiving communities look pretty bad.

This is only true for text-only posts, like this and is why I prepend with the "Original question by". Articles/memes/images do in fact show in the crosspost menu chain

I think I now understand what you're trying to do, but I'm skeptical. As someone on the receiving end of your copypasta, what I see is a flood of posts from a single account dominating some of the forums that I frequent. The pattern resembles that of a bot, casts an unauthentic tint on the content of your posts, and makes the signal-to-noise ratio of the receiving communities look pretty bad.

Even as someone who prefers to avoid the tankie instances, I suspect that what you are doing is likely more harmful than helpful to the other ones. I have been considering unsubscrbing because of it. And, since you are bridging content from the problematic place, I think a case can be made that your effort is counterproductive to your own goals. After all, why would people migrate away from lemmy.ml if they know they can post there and have their words reach other instances as well?

The vast majority of users...just don't care, they simply follow where the activity is. I do monitor data points where I can, when I began months ago .ml memes would hover between #13-16 ranking among the Threadiverse. Now? ~30, .ml traffic overall is down. When I started, each morning I'd have to sift through 6-7 pages of new posts. Now it's < 3

Ofc, I'm doing many other things behind the scenes as well contributing to that. But overall, considering the bulk of what is reposted isn't text-based, it's been fairly positive

As an alternative, might I suggest contributing your time to boosting awareness and membership of non-ml communities? This would be a more organic approach, and perhaps slower, but I think the results would be better. Take !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for example. It was pretty quiet until recently, but after a little promotion and participation from a few interested people, activity there seems to be rising quite a bit.

Oh believe me, I'm taking a multifaceted approach. Individual reach out, OC content, organically sourced articles, harvesting of "The Bad Place", documentation and promotion

I often aim for a 1-2 ratio, for every 1 crosspost I try to contribute 2 posts of "organic content", however that is subject to fluctuation, since this is filled from my hobby time. The weekend particularly has the least free time to dedicate