How do you properly cross-post on Lemmy?

I was under the impression that there was no backend support for cross-posts in Lemmy – I thought that the “proper” way to cross-post was to click the cross post button

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/518b4015-ad12-45a0-9cbf-836f1ee44fa6.png

which would result in a new “create post” with a link to the original post, and the body in markdown quotations (which is a rather ugly solution) which, for example, looks like this:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/54ce941c-6952-4960-b59a-de2c212e9afa.png

with no reference on the original

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b8d68b7b-4675-4311-b742-dfd384fe28c5.png

But I then started seeing the following:

How does one create these nicer cross-posts?

Die4Ever, (edited )

the cross-post button is the correct way to do it, but sometimes I do delete the > at the start of each line to remove the quote block

currently the “cross-posted to:” thing is based on the link URL, so text-posts don’t have that for now, but any link post will get it automatically if you used the cross-post button

(easy solution is to have a url for every post, even if it’s just a simple image)

raoulraoul,

Yeah, I do that ‘>’ delete dance too. What a pain in the ass! 😄😭

mo_ztt,
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That’s just the UI that shows you other communities where the same link has been posted.

If you want to create a cross-post like that for an existing post that has a URL, just make a new one with the same URL. If you want to create one for a text-only post, I think that’s not possible though.

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