Newcomers to Dreamwidth

This discussion about crossposting is mostly a repetition of "Blogging Questionnaire Day 6: Crossposting" from Three Weeks for Dreamwidth 2022. I have added a few new bits for the current context.


What is crossposting?

Crossposting involves sharing the same content in more than one place. That might be your blog on Dreamwidth and your blog on another platform, different communities on Dreamwidth, totally different types of social media like Facebook and Twitter, etc. The content may be identical (like if you're pasting an event announcement in several relevant Dreamwidth communities), slightly edited for relevance (like highlighting why you're posting a thing as it touches on each community's theme), or adapted to the features of a particular site (which may use images or tags differently). Dreamwidth does have an automatic crossposting feature, but it only works for other platforms, not for different blogs or communities inside Dreamwidth itself. Therefore crossposting within Dreamwidth has to be done manually: you copy the title and text into a new post window for another blog or community.

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