Commands/formatting for posting to Lemmy from MastodonHow can I start a new post to a Lemmy community and avoid it looking like crap? In particular I'm looking for how to get the post title to be a link to article or other webpage and to get an to show in the body. What I have been doing makes it look like just a text link in the body for both. @fediverse

Idk @fu@hostux.social that seemed to work

@Fu@hostux.social Sadly Mastodon isn't really ideal for posting to Lemmy.

In the federated ActivityPub document, the URL of a Lemmy link post is just a link attachment. So if Mastodon allows you to add arbitrary attachments not limited to images, then maybe there is a way. But otherwise you're probably out of luck there.

Thread title goes into the top line. It's mandatory. Top line/paragraph must be only the thread title. No post text.

Line below: Mention the Lemmy community that you want to post to. The Lemmy community must be mentioned between the title and the post text, as in, under the title and above the post text. Nothing else must be in this line/paragraph.

Below that: post text in as many paragraphs as you need.

No further mentions anywhere else in the post.

Also, no hashtags. They won't break anything, Lemmy simply doesn't support hashtags. But some 99% of all Lemmy users come from Reddit (as opposed to almost everyone on Mastodon coming from Twitter), Reddit doesn't have hashtags, and so they aren't used to hashtags. Lemmy's culture is basically Reddit's culture, and Mastodon's culture is irrelevant and invalid on Lemmy.

Also, no hashtags. They won’t break anything, Lemmy simply doesn’t support hashtags

True for Lemmy, but Piefed does support hashtags, and those are essential for Mastodon. So maybe stripping those is not a strict requirement

Also, for testing I guess one could use !playground@piefed.social