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 @[email protected] in the body of the post. However, that hasn’t seemed to work.

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

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    No flair. What you need is:

    <post title> @community@instance
<line break>
<post body>

    Edit: to those downvoting: If you think what I am saying is wrong, how about giving a better answer?

    Here is a Mastodon Post and here is how it ended up in Lemmy (The NSFW tag was because I mistakenly tried to add the title as a content warning)

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      As I say in my comments, the community only needs to be tagged first of all tagged entities.

      Putting it on the first line isn’t necessary and can be annoying as it will occur in the title of the post on lemmy.

      • Peter Link@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        32·
        3 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

        ================

        Thanks again for your posts!

    • Peter Link@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      You were correct about flair - doesn’t help with Masto-to-lemmy. Thanks. (last night I posted this in the wrong place. It’s where I want it now.) :-)