So, I've been trying to drum up activity over in c/RWBY (mostly by posting art) and someone suggested cross-posting to relevant communities, which I've been doing, only now I'm starting to second-guess the way I've been doing it.

Should I be cross-posting right away, or waiting some amount of time before doing so? And how long should that wait be, if I should wait?

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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Whatever the niche topic is, when there are multiple communities that maybe be broad enough to contain your audience, there’s probably a lot of overlap in subscribers. So yes do crosspost, and do it immediately, but only cross any given post to 2 or 3 other communities. Then it won’t feel like large spam to people subscribed to all of them. I prefer to scroll by a set of 2-3 crossed duplicates, one right after another in the feed (because they were all posted at the same time) than to have one post seem to repeat with some time separation.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago

    Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. In general I don't use social media the way a lot of other people do and was worried that having a pic show up even those 2-3 times in a row would get on people's nerves and end up not drawing them to the community.

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