TIL you can post on lemmy while on mastodon.

@til #TIL

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Some tips for this, as someone who does it all the time:

    • Tag a Lemmy community like you would a Mastodon user to get this to work, for example @til@lemmy.world, BUT…
    • The first line of your toot becomes the post title, so don’t put any links or tag the community in that first line. Newer versions of Lemmy can strip out links but it still ends up looking weird. Looks best if you do something like the example below.
    • You can only post to one community, trying to tag multiple will post to the first one and ignore the rest
    • The first image attached to your toot becomes the Lemmy post image, but subsequent images get left behind
    • If your Mastodon instance has AUTHORIZED_FETCH turned on and the Lemmy community you’re trying to post to isn’t on 0.19 yet, it won’t work at all. In theory this should be fixed when more servers upgrade but we’ll see.

    Example toot format

    This is my title, with nothing weird in it.

    Rest of the toot goes here and will become the post body. This format will look nice on both Mastodon and Lemmy therefore not making anyone unreasonably mad at you.

    @community and #Hashtags