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

submitted 2 months 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] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No flair. What you need is:

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months 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] 0 points 2 months ago

Please use [email protected] in the future.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months 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] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 0 points 2 months ago

Glad to help!!