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/[email protected] 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.

  • Camus (il, lui)@jlai.luEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Hey, it’s me.

    How can Piefed know it’s a crosspost if there’s no common link between the two posts (usually the link to the article in most posts, or the picture for some others) ?

    • curious@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      If I remember correctly, Lemmy matches two posts with the exact same title. I think I don’t it by mistake once. Maybe Piefed do the same, maybe it is implemented differently.
      Let me check.

      • Camus (il, lui)@jlai.luEnglish
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        14 days ago

        As pointed out in another comment

        A cross-post is just a post that links to the same URL as another post.

        That’s how Lemmy works too. Trust me, I crosspost quite a lot, as you know

        • curious@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Maybe that’s how Lemmy detects crossposting but there is a visual mark of the crosspost in the interface and I have access to a link to the post in the other community that opens in my instance rather than in another instance. That is something very practical that make Lemmy crossposts more than posts with similar content. And that is something I didn’t find in Piefed.