I’m trying to figure out how to create a post that shows up in more than one community. There is a pull down menu to select one community but it doesn’t seem like more than one can be selected. I think that I’ve seen other people do it. I’ve searched for it but haven’t found an answer. The join lemmy intro website does not seem mention it either. on https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html . Is there a Lemmy posting tips and tricks summary somewhere other than the RTFM option?

  • Springtime@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 year ago

    You can cross post to different communities via the two double/overlapping squares that appear under the headline of your original post.

    1. Create and post original post in community A
    2. Go to your posting and click on the two overlapping squares under the headline of your original post. Title, text, body. will be automatically filled in.
    3. Choose community B in the drop down menu you want to cross post to and publish it.
    4. Repeat steps 1-3 for additional cross postings to other communities.

    There will be a remark and link to all cross posted posts/communities the same URL has been posted to.

    Hope, this helps :)

    • dishpanman@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thank you! I was able to to get it to work now! I never hovered over those options at the top until now! I’ve only used the edit option under the three dot pull down menu, and I’ve been blind to the save star, cross-post box and view source icon until today. There are no stupid questions, just stupid people like me who ask questions! 😉

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
    21·
    1 year ago

    once you post to one community, if you press the little “copy” icon you can x-post to another community

    • dishpanman@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! Will the comments from each separate community get merged into one post, or will the comments stay separate to each community where the comments are made?

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
        21·
        1 year ago

        unfortunately[1] no, they count as two separate posts

        there will be a little thing under the title saying “cross-posted from x” (example)

        1. subjectively ↩︎

        • dishpanman@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh well, thanks for the quick responses, I was able to figure it out! Hopefully in the future both posts from multiple communities can be merged if it’s pointing to the same article/source. It would reduce the clutter.

          • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
            11·
            1 year ago

            no worries, glad you got it working

            i don’t know if they will though - i think the plan for lemmy is to be more “community” based, so comment sections from different communities sort of go against that (which i can understand in some ways - if someone x-posted from e.g. !trans to !gendercritical, i wouldn’t really want the comment sections to be merged)