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How to Post from mastodon? (self.lemmy)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by erranto to c/[email protected]
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Hi I found out that it is possible to create a thread on a lemmy community using a mastodon account by mentioning the community handle. but the process is quite undocumented and unknown to many of us.

How Can I make a thread with a separate title and post body from an app like tusky?

how to make the community @ mention not appear on the title ?

Are there any propagation problems to be aware of ?

sometimes the post doesn't show on the community feed, or takes too long to show, or shows from another instance quicker than the one I have posted in. the post might have the correct creation timestamp but fails to show up on the lemmy community promptly.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wrote a demo of doing this here: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

There’s a thread there with links to the lemmy post it creates and examples of replies going both ways.

Hope it helps.

[–] erranto 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the trick is to write the Title on a separate first line, and after the line break the body follows, neat !

Maybe someone could make a short video on youtube ans share it on mastodon for more people to see, It is a shame to have 2 MILLION monthly active users on mastodon who don't know about how these platforms interact with each other. more work should be done on that

[–] erranto 2 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] Maybe you could help spread the word on this feature, you have a considerable following on mastodon

cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very useful!

Do you know whether one can reply by mastodon to an already existing thread in Lemmy? (In other words, could I have written this in mastodon?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@PorkButtsNTaters666 @[email protected]

You should be able to, yes, just as I am here.

Copy the link to the lemmy post/comment, and search for it in the mastodon interface. It should get fetched and come up. Then you can just reply (and like) as you normally would.

Beyond that you can follow lemmy communities and users normally. Following communities might flood your timeline as comments as well as posts will go in there.