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Hello new people joining the #Mastodon and #Lemmy sides of the #Fediverse! How did you find yourself here? What was the specific point that lead you to make the jump?

[posting to the @technology community on https://beehaw.org]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're using mastodon it looks like, idk why posts from there show up like this though, this isn't the first one I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably bc Mastodon toots don't have a post title, so it looks like Lemmy just uses the first x-many characters from the toot body, which includes some markdown links.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So I guess either mastodon would need to add some custom code that detects a Lemmy federated post and prompts its user for a title, Or Lemmy would need to detect that it's a mastodon toot and add some sort of generic title like "Cross toot from Mastodon"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@eric5949 @shortwavesurfer

Does this response also do that? I don't generally see markup on my comments when I click through to beehaw but maybe it shows up for some users and not others?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only if I go to reply then jerboa shows the full markdown text for the hyperlinks to our @'s but just browsing it's just the hyperlink. On beehaw itself it's just hyperlinks regardless.

this is what it looks like on jerboa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@eric5949 So for now it probably seems safe to reply as normal, and simply ensure that there aren't tags in the post title when posting to a community, is what I'm thinking then.