I shop at small businesses if its an option. I prefer my money supporting the community than someone’s fourth yacht.

That being said there is a particular type of small business whose customers are largely old retired people. They’re usually open 8-5, have higher than normal prices, and are in no rush as they usually like to chat - Which their customer base likes.

There are other types of course but sometimes you got to do hunting because they likely don’t have big advertising bucks.

Its very very difficult for small businesses to compete with big box stores. They can’t out price Walmart or outship Amazon. So they usually try to find a niche to focus on… Or wither on the vine.

You mean ‘ram’ it?

Yeah here’s an example from yesterday:

This is posted to /c/memes@piefed.world and /c/memes@europe.pub, marked by this stacking icon thing.

You can see the comments from both communities if you visit either post in either community.

My aim was to take an existing Mastodon post and basically repost it somewhere else here on Lemmy, but then have the discussion attached.

For example, John Mastodon makes a post about XYZ, then I crosspost it to the Open Source community, and if you open that post you can see the Mastodon comments and such, and commenting here on Lemmy would add to that conversation.

Ok this ‘appears’ to work. Each community is viewable as a group in Mastodon, so you can tag it as you post and this creates a PieFed/Lemmy post onto PieFed’s testing community.

Now to figure out the final step, how to crosslink posts.

Oh most definitely, here’s this post on Mastodon:

Still unsure of how to do the reverse though.

Those were actually versions of you from parallel universes, each saving you in the manner that the prophecies foretold.

NAL but I don’t think this is illegal, though it is a pretty large red flag that you’re going to get lowballed.