I’m discovering the threadiverse through a new account and software.
I wanted to crosspost a Lemmy post into another Lemmy community. Can I do this from a Piefed instance?
EDIT : No, you can’t. You can only reference another post using a link.
Here is an example of a crosspost btw two Lemmy instances. Piefed only allow to access the link btw them
https://feddit.online/post/165743
Here is an example of copy-pasting a link to a Lemmy post into a new Piefed post. There is only the link but no proper crosspost
https://feddit.online/post/165808
Here is an example of copy-pasting a link to a Piefed post into a new Piefed post. There is only the link but no proper crosspost
https://feddit.online/post/165842
Note that I attached in my test the post to the software of the poster not of the community.
Right now Piefed voluntarily allow crosspost for bot only as stated by @Rimu here
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/206
I’ve added a feature for a limited form of cross-posting - on any bot-created post, if it hasn’t been posted elsewhere yet, there is a cross-posting button. This is most obvious at https://piefed.social/c/propublica@rss.ponder.cat where a large percentage of the links have already been posted in ‘real’ communities.
Long-term we will want to have cross-posting on all post types but I don’t really want to encourage cross-posting until we handle duplicate posts better, like Mbin does.
Thank you all for helping me figure this out
2nd EDIT: We figure out in the comments a way to get the crosspost pick up by Lemmy but it is only for post having an external reference and it is not picked up by Piefed.
Interesting. Let me try again with posts with closer dates.
Do I need to use the URL of the picture or of the post itself to crosspost it successfully on Piefed?
The picture (or whatever external resource a post is pointing to, like
https://bbc.com/news/article.html
)