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submitted 1 year ago by GingeyBook@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[–] em2@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can add your post to the tagged Lemmy communities by tagging them like so: @!community@lemmyinstance.

Shout-out to @mrpresidenttom@mastodon.social for posting this tip.

*Edit: don't forget to start it with the ! And type slowly. A drop-down list will appear as you type.

*Edit 2: I think I'm doing it wrong because I'm not seeing it post in the linked community, but here's the post I this from.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 1 points 1 year ago

That potentially makes things very simple to kind of 'instantly cross-post' w/ a multi-reddit type setup