I would like to post news articles to the lemmy.ml Palestine community from Mastodon. I have read that I only need a flair [News] in the title and the mention of @palestine@lemmy.ml in the body of the post. However, that hasn’t seemed to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :-)

  • Peter LinkOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your help. You are right about placement of community - I have mine way down in the post, but it is before other non-Lemmy groups.

    One silly error I made when I started testing was that I tried to send the message non-public, so I wouldn’t send garbage to Mastodon followers. That didn’t work for getting it to Lemmy - I had to have my test post be public before I started seeing them in test lemmy.ml.

    Also, I found that putting “[News]” in front of the title in Mastodon post doesn’t carry over well to Lemmy, so I don’t do that now.

    Here is my simple prototype:

    Title of news article

    text, text

    URL of article

    hashtags (too many)

    @palestine AT lemmy.ml (but entered correctly there)

    2 more @ mentions to gup.pe groups

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    Thanks again for your posts!