Cross Posting from DevOps, I hope this is the correct way of doing that and it’s considered acceptable.
Hope the SREs can get back to a quite workday soon.
Looks like you linked to the [email protected] post directly. You can also use the cross-post button on the original post, just next to the star/save icon. That’ll reuse the original URL that the original post used, then also auto populate the body with a link directly to the original post, along with quoted markdown of the original body text.
The nice thing about using the same URL for cross-posts is that Limmy-UI will also include hints below the title of posts with names of the communities cross posted to, allowing readers to discover even more cross-posted locations to jump into other threads, even from other instances.
Not sure if the Lemmy community has established a consistent etiquette for linking, as I think currently the URLs have to string match exactly for cross-posts to be highlighted. URL parameters and shorteners can throw a wrench into that feature. Would be nice to support aliasing across common variants, such as YouTube share and time parames.
Thanks for the info on crossposting! I thought I’d seen someone mention a cross posting feature but couldn’t see any button to do it. I’m using the Jerboa app on Android which I guess doesn’t have that button, but I see it on the website now as you say.
It’s also good to know that linking to the original URL is generally better and the rest can be handled by the UI - that does seem nicer.
