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.
Here is another 4-days old post, this time with an external ressource crossposted from Lemmy to Piefed.
It gets picked up as crosspost by Lemmy but unfortunatly not by Piefed
https://feddit.online/post/165962
Watching it from Piefed, I have no way to see that it match a post in another community as it doesn’t even refer to the original post using hyperlink.