This feature is a lifesaver for fediverse. It allows you to see from a general perspective, reduces confusion and creates a more organized forum environment. Thank you to everyone who has already used this feature and I highly recommend everyone to use it.

  • oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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    5 months ago

    FYI: There’s currently an open issue with crossposting on instances using the 0.19.4 lemmy ui.

    In a nutshell, the post submission page reloads after it retrieves the community to crosspost to, so everything but the selected community is wiped out.

  • Ashtear@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Crossposting from popular posts is also a good way to promote your smaller communities!

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I wish it would combine comments for crossposts. It doesn’t have to break per-server instance bans or anything like that. Just combine the comments for servers that are friendly with each other.

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    the issue with it for me is that it doesn’t show who crossposted from who, so it can cause misattribution unless you go out of your way to compare the dates of when the posts were made

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I find that sometimes when I try to crosspost and select the community to crosspost to, the entite “Create Post” page resets, and I have to type everything out all over again. Is there any fix for this?

    • doodle967@lemdro.idOP
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      5 months ago

      This would be great, and it would even be great to be able to see certain communities together directly.

      • Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        idk about other clients but lemmy sync lets you unite a number of comms into a single feed

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    One problem I have with the crosspost feature is that the body text of the original post is just copied, rather than embedded. If the body text of the original post is edited, any crossposts are not updated. For all of its other shortcomings, I think Reddit’s implementation of crossposts is currently better.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Not sure which version everyone is on but the cross-posting button is broken in the latest Lemmy version. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

  • mark@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I never really understood how cross posting works here. You mind telling us the benefits? Does it consolidate all of the discussions in each cross post into one big long thread? 🤔

    • doodle967@lemdro.idOP
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      5 months ago

      It allows you to see from a general perspective, reduces confusion and creates a more organized forum environment.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      5 months ago

      It doesn’t combine them (because different people are subbed to different communities, although what you bring up has been discussed on the github for a while). The biggest thing though is discoverability, where your post is shown in multiple communities easily. Another added benefit is that there are less duplicated posts, your app/device can see that it was crossposted and show you only one in your feed rather than 3,5, 10 duplicate posts (and then you can tab between them)

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        your app/device can see that it was crossposted and show you only one in your feed rather than 3,5, 10 duplicate posts

        How many apps support this though? My preferred one certainly doesn’t.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    5 months ago

    The posts that show up under “Crossposts” just have the same URL. They don’t have to actually be crossposted. Any post your instance knows about that has the same URL as the one you’re viewing will show up there.

    To answer @mark@programming.dev 's question, there’s nothing special about crossposting in Lemmy. It works the same as creating a new post except it just pre-fills the URL, body, and title as well as adding crossposted from https://instance.xyz/c/community to the top of the post body. They’re separate posts and the only link between them is they’re matched on the URL and show up in the “Crossposts” list.

    • doodle967@lemdro.idOP
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      5 months ago

      Are you sure? Some posts did not appear as crossposts even though they contained the same link.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, like 99% sure, anyway (unless something changed in 0.19.4 I’m unaware of). lol Got an example?

        It’ll only show ones the instance knows about, and the URL has to be exactly the same. I’m not sure if there’s an internal limit to the number of crossposts the API will return, but I’ve seen spam posts show at least 7 or 8 crossposts in the list. Any more than that, and I’ve usually already banned the person for spamming.

      • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
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        5 months ago

        Unless they’ve changed how it works I can confirm.
        Some months ago I was testing lemmy in my local I used the same URL to create a new post, it never showed up in the ui, it was because Lemmy treated it as a crosspost and hid it under the older one.
        At that time it was only a crosspost jf the URL was the same, I’m not so sure about the title, but the body could be different.

        The thing would be to verify if this grouping is being done by the UI or by the server, which might explain some UIs showing duplicated posts.

      • Ashtear@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        What I’ve been running into is that even if it’s the same link, if you change the body text it won’t list the crossposting.