I’m trying to figure out how to create a post that shows up in more than one community. There is a pull down menu to select one community but it doesn’t seem like more than one can be selected. I think that I’ve seen other people do it. I’ve searched for it but haven’t found an answer. The join lemmy intro website does not seem mention it either. on https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html . Is there a Lemmy posting tips and tricks summary somewhere other than the RTFM option?

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
    21·
    1 year ago

    once you post to one community, if you press the little “copy” icon you can x-post to another community

    • dishpanman@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! Will the comments from each separate community get merged into one post, or will the comments stay separate to each community where the comments are made?

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
        21·
        1 year ago

        unfortunately[1] no, they count as two separate posts

        there will be a little thing under the title saying “cross-posted from x” (example)

        1. subjectively ↩︎

        • dishpanman@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh well, thanks for the quick responses, I was able to figure it out! Hopefully in the future both posts from multiple communities can be merged if it’s pointing to the same article/source. It would reduce the clutter.

          • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼English
            11·
            1 year ago

            no worries, glad you got it working

            i don’t know if they will though - i think the plan for lemmy is to be more “community” based, so comment sections from different communities sort of go against that (which i can understand in some ways - if someone x-posted from e.g. !trans to !gendercritical, i wouldn’t really want the comment sections to be merged)