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How to crosspost a "non-link" post? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm trying out starting a new community.

I wanted to crosspost some posts I already made elsewhere, e.g. https://piefed.social/post/984528 / https://lemmy.ca/post/46999890

But there's no crosspost button.

  1. Is there a way to do it?
  2. And I'm curious: why is there no crosspost button for so many posts?
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I opened a issue on codeberg, I hope it helps.
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/996

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Crossposts (be it on Lemmy or Piefed) rely on links to get identified.

Piefed only offers crossposts for posts with links (be it to articles or pictures). Lemmy ignores that and offers to crossposts anything, but then the posts wouldn't be identified as crossposts.

I'm personally using my Lemmy account when I need to do so.

Let's see how the conversation goes here, if needed I can open an issue on the Codeberg project to track that improvement.

FYI @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this why some cross posts aren't filtering out of my home feed? Maddening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Probably

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks for the response.

I guess I assumed the post itself (not just a link it contains) had its own... ID? Or something, and that's how things got crossposted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yes that would be a better way to do it :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, unfortunately that's not the case.

Example:

The posts don't show up as crossposts from each other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Tricky thing to solve, It might be an idea to assign some kind of ID / Hash / HomeURL to a post.