It’s kinda hard to get a feel for which community you should post somethings in. I’d say this is particularly true of discussion topics/text posts (that end up never posted). Anyone else or Is it just a me problem? If not, what could be done about it?

Edit 1: For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there’s a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    The feature to move posts between communities is planned and also AFAIK Piefed’s feature of bundling together comments across all cross-posts is also coming to Lemmy sometime. Those, I think, could ease your worries a bit

    But apart from that, my 2¢: save your markdown and “just do it” - unironically. It is true that many bad posts get deleted. But if you are coming with a real thought to discuss

    1. it’s probable it won’t be deleted even if it bends some community rules
    2. even if it does get deleted from a community, that does not put you in the same bag as those offenders

    IMO, being absolutely-fucking-right-all-the-time-where-to-post is not a prerequisite to being here. After all (IMO) we are all here just people, we are all here just to connect, not perfectly sort posts into communities. The way threadiverse is, the communities are and will be and (IMO) should be in constant flux. With time, or rather posts, you will start to get the unwritten feel of communities. What gets downvoted where, what gets more reaction where, etc. But there is no way not even to know it beforehand, there is no way to codify it.

    Also, on a more philosophical note, when you are interacting with a community, you are taking part in defining it. ATM you might be a small drop in the ocean, or the first signal of change. Maybe it needs to get more thoughts than links? Or maybe the discussants need to split off into another community? Neither you nor me, nor current community posters know that. Time will tell, communities will flux

    Let the thought flow