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Etiquette of sharing blog posts: should I share full text? (self.meta)
submitted 2 months ago by cosmicbytes to c/meta
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Hi all, I have a blog and I wanted to start sharing it on lemmy, but I am wondering, should I post the entire content of the blog post when I post it?

For context, my blog is ad-free, so I'm not concerned about missing out on ad revenue.

But my blog posts are longer than average, so it may be quite long to post them here. Moreover, the blog post may have graphics or mermaid diagrams that are not easily copy able. Is it a good practice to share the full text in the lemmy post despite this, or should I only share the URL?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just make a link post in the community. Don’t worry about the length, all that matters is if people like the content. There have been people who posted to /r/rust about starting sales for a book they just published that did really well with votes, so pay isn’t always related.

There’s lots of blog posts in /c/rust and /c/programming. Some of the blog posts in /c/rust can be really long. There was one today about async rust. There are also sometimes free book link posts.

Treating people like you want to be treated can be a decent way to evaluate yourself. Just make sure it’s relevant to the community. If there was a mistake, don’t worry about it, stuff is removed all the time in other communities and subs on other websites, and you didn’t do anything wrong.