I was under the impression that there was no backend support for cross-posts in Lemmy – I thought that the “proper” way to cross-post was to click the cross post button

which would result in a new “create post” with a link to the original post, and the body in markdown quotations (which is a rather ugly solution) which, for example, looks like this:

with no reference on the original

But I then started seeing the following:

  • Lemmy UI:
  • Thunder:

How does one create these nicer cross-posts?

  • Die4Ever
    9•6 months ago

    the cross-post button is the correct way to do it, but sometimes I do delete the > at the start of each line to remove the quote block

    currently the “cross-posted to:” thing is based on the link URL, so text-posts don’t have that for now, but any link post will get it automatically if you used the cross-post button

    (easy solution is to have a url for every post, even if it’s just a simple image)

  • mo_ztt ✅English
    7•6 months ago

    That’s just the UI that shows you other communities where the same link has been posted.

    If you want to create a cross-post like that for an existing post that has a URL, just make a new one with the same URL. If you want to create one for a text-only post, I think that’s not possible though.