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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 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 @[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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