I posted it to 8 communities because there are 8 communities I am aware of where this on-topic. Some people might be subscribed to only a subset of them. This is the natural consequence of the fediverse enabling us to have more than one community for discussing the same topic.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I suppose some instances cut others off as well (I see only 6 total) so you have a fair point

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some 'open-source' news, chose one community that you think is 'best' (based on what instance it's on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the 'good' communities would thrive, and the 'bad' ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there's 8 communities for open source, and there'll always will be, because they aren't in competition with one another.

(this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it's not meant as a dig at you personally).

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is "best", I do not pay enough attention to things going on behind the scenes to have any knowledge of that.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is "best"

Its a bit basic but so far I've just gone with the largest population. Usually I'm just after the most activity and that generally scales with population. It keeps things relatively simple.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Thx looks like I am only in this one.