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how do I create a post in Mastodon that can go to a Lemmy community (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like to post news articles to the lemmy.ml Palestine community from Mastodon. I have read that I only need a flair [News] in the title and the mention of @[email protected] in the body of the post. However, that hasn't seemed to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :-)

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

I made a brief guide here: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

What’s more, is it is posted to the test community on lemmy.ml, so you can find there too (link: https://lemmy.ml/post/1142168). A few people replied so you can see the whole federation thing happen too.

It is really the only way to fuse the two systems (posting from masto to lemmy), so please do this as much as you can!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The main issue you’re likely to run into is that lemmy only respects the first “at”-ed entity, whether community or masto user.

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

Excellent write-up. Will it also work from threads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have no idea about threads and personally don’t want to. You may find a fair amount of lemmy instances blocking threads though, compared to mastodon instances at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

No flair. What you need is:

<post title> @community@instance
<line break>
<post body>

Edit: to those downvoting: If you think what I am saying is wrong, how about giving a better answer?

Here is a Mastodon Post and here is how it ended up in Lemmy (The NSFW tag was because I mistakenly tried to add the title as a content warning)

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

As I say in my comments, the community only needs to be tagged first of all tagged entities.

Putting it on the first line isn’t necessary and can be annoying as it will occur in the title of the post on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks a lot for your help. You are right about placement of community - I have mine way down in the post, but it is before other non-Lemmy groups.

One silly error I made when I started testing was that I tried to send the message non-public, so I wouldn't send garbage to Mastodon followers. That didn't work for getting it to Lemmy - I had to have my test post be public before I started seeing them in test lemmy.ml.

Also, I found that putting "[News]" in front of the title in Mastodon post doesn't carry over well to Lemmy, so I don't do that now.

Here is my simple prototype:

Title of news article

text, text

URL of article

hashtags (too many)

@palestine AT lemmy.ml (but entered correctly there)

2 more @ mentions to gup.pe groups

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Thanks again for your posts!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Glad to help!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Please use [email protected] in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You were correct about flair - doesn’t help with Masto-to-lemmy. Thanks. (last night I posted this in the wrong place. It's where I want it now.) :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I replied to maegul with some observations elsewhere in this thread. But if you want to see my first good Masto-to-Lemmy post, you can look here: https://lemmy.ml/post/19510351