curiousCan I crosspost on Piefed?
AndrewThe post you mentioned ('melting is tough') isn't picked up as a cross-post on PieFed instances because the dates are too far apart. A restriction that Rimu wanted was that they should only be detected if they were within 7 days of one another.
However, if you take that URL (https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/91f96cc8-a194-4cb8-abc6-505261e65420.jpeg), and make a new post with it, then the post you mentioned now shows that it has a cross-post.
Here is a 4-days old post that I just crosspost from and to Lemmy
https://feddit.online/post/165936
It is not pickup as crosspost either.
https://feddit.online/post/165936
It is not pickup as crosspost either.
It's doesn't seem like feddit.online is aware of the other community ([email protected]), so it doesn't have a copy of both posts, so it doesn't know that they are cross-posts.
If you bring that community into feddit.online, then create a post with the same URL as a recent post (e.g. https://files.catbox.moe/pebvir.jpeg), then they'll show up.
So... I made sure to federate [email protected] to feddit.online. I joined it then done the same test : A crosspost from Lemmy to Lemmy with no external reference but a text body and still no crosspost is picked up by Piefed
https://feddit.online/post/166043
https://feddit.online/post/166043
Camus (il, lui)Hey, it’s me.
How can Piefed know it’s a crosspost if there’s no common link between the two posts (usually the link to the article in most posts, or the picture for some others) ?
If I remember correctly, Lemmy matches two posts with the exact same title. I think I don't it by mistake once. Maybe Piefed do the same, maybe it is implemented differently.
Let me check.
Let me check.
As pointed out in another comment
A cross-post is just a post that links to the same URL as another post.
That’s how Lemmy works too. Trust me, I crosspost quite a lot, as you know
Maybe that's how Lemmy detects crossposting but there is a visual mark of the crosspost in the interface and I have access to a link to the post in the other community that opens in my instance rather than in another instance. That is something very practical that make Lemmy crossposts more than posts with similar content. And that is something I didn't find in Piefed.
Yes, as mentioned in the other comment with the GitHub ticket, it’s not implemented yet
I was mistaken. Lemmy only detected automatically the link when title, body and external reference where the same. It did not do it when the title and body was the same on posts without external references.
Blaze (he/him)Indeed, that makes sense as the title can be edited, while the URL to the external resource can’t