What if the post isn’t particularly appropriate for one community, but very good for another? No point having it float to the top of the one it’s not the best fit for.

Like, maybe it’s still relevant on that community but shouldn’t be artificially inflated with votes from an entirely different group of people with different interests.

Nice idea, I just don’t think it would be good in practice.

What you want is Group-to-Group Following, which obviates the need for most cross-posting altogether.

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d36d-sharing-content-across-federated-forums/3366

A bit pedantic, but it’s developers that need to implement it first

From what I can tell, there’s no way to confirm if something is a crosspost? Using the webui button just autofills some details, and the little indicator will disappear as soon as you edit either post. It’s too easy to hijack for vote manipulation

Instead of upvotes can we have something like a link showing up below the post (in both places) pointing to where it has been cross-posted, so that may be can visit if interested and engage with comments. This can increase interaction in both places.

For karma whores this means that they will flood the fediverse with cross-posts, posting into all possible and mismatched for topic communities. I am against this. Already I see duplicates and triplicates on my Home Screen.