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Discussion on: Where do you cross-post?

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rderik • Edited

I cross post on the following sites:

  • Reddit - When I post on I have more reach
  • Linkedin - Post there but not many people read the posts when I do that
  • Twitter - I mention my posts there but the engagement is super low.
  • Dev.to - I post here just because I like the community, but also low engagement

I think that the best crossposting site would be reddit, there are lots of users and if you post it in a relevant topic people will be interested. I think that twitter is the worst for engagement. For me twitter is deceptive because you see people with 20K followers but when you see their posts they have around 30 likes or 5 retweets (low engagement). And the community isn't that welcoming/friendly.

I really want Dev.to to grow, the community here is much more welcoming than in any other site, which is why I tend to visit and also comment on people's posts

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Vikram Chaudhary

I have never tried reddit but twitter is quite engaging for me. It depends how often do you post and with what hast tags. Though I have created a bot which picks the posts from my blog and posts on Twitter thus reducing my manual work.

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Waylon Walker

I had created a bot for mine at one point, but took it down as it started posting missing content. I built mine from the rss feed and a service that I can't remember right now. Going back I might do it with actions.

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Waylon Walker

Any tips on reddit? I know nothing about it. I've tried to post there and go no engagement. Next time I tried to post I didn't even have enough karma.

I think they are all what you make of them. They definitely have their own quirks, but it seems that to build a community and engagement you need to be engaged and put the work in.

The DEV community has been the best to me as well 😉

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rderik

It'll depend on the subreddit. For example, I write mostly on topics related to Swift. The Swift subreddit allows you to write posts, there are some subreddits that only let you share links (you can later add some description in a comment), so you will have to adapt. I tend to write a an excerpt of the post and give the key concept, and post the link to my full article on my site for anyone really interested.

If you look at the number of upvotes you might get tricked into thinking that it doesn't have much impact, but check your site statistics and it might tell a different story. And also a lot of people don't like to interact in public but they do read your content. Reddit has such a big number of users you get more exposure.

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Waylon Walker

Thanks for the tips, those are really helpful for those of us yet to understand reddit.