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I've actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it's not working. I've used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it's not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I've also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

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[–] HerbalGamer 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  1. Pretty sure you can just use the community in the post like @[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So

Lorem ipsum
Text text text
@lorem@ipsum

On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like

Title:

Lorem ipsum

Body:

Text text text
@lorem@ipsum

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You need to double-enter (for some reason). Right now it looks like this:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
One single newline
Leads to no line break at all

Double space before the newline  
Should yield a line break

Double newline 

Leads to paragraph break

One single newline Leads to no line break at all

Double space before the newline
Should yield a line break

Double newline

Leads to paragraph break

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Double space before the newline should yield a line break

Why is it like this 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's in the holy text: the markdown standard.

Ninja edit: the reason is because a single line break should have no formatting effect so that markdown files can be opened and show up better in terminal editors like vim or emacs. It's good to be able to break a line when it gets too long in editors which don't use page formatting to handle line wrapping (ie. like MS Word does). So you need something other than a single newline character to represent a rendered paragraph break.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh that's why! Makes sense, thanks :)

~~Also ninja edits don't work on lemmy~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh weird. I thought it'd be fine since I quoted it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did it show an error when you tried to confirm your email?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

it said incorrect login credentials when trying to log in.

the link in the email takes me nowhere but a blank page.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Try clearing the browser. It may have a cookie that needs refreshed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I don't know enough about the lemmy server to say whether this is a regular issue. I'd just retry creating a user with the same email.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  1. Many different potential things, your application question might be in review, your browser might need to clear cache, your email verification didn't work yet or other things.
  2. To post to Lemmy from Mastodon, you just have to mention the community name somewhere in your Mastodon post. For example @[email protected]

Bear in mind, the first line becomes the title of post and the rest is in the body, so it's recommended to add the mention later.

[–] litchralee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure about your first question, but for the second: Mastodon and Lemmy are both part of the Fediverse, implementing the ActivePub protocol. But what each offers is not really compatible with the other. Mastodon is microblogging, whereas Lemmy is link/news aggregator. ~~The semantics of each also don't match: does favorite-ing in Mastodon post equal a Lemmy upvote?~~

~~So while you can't natively cross-post between the two systems,~~ there's no reason why an app can't integrate the experience of both seamlessly. And in any case, sharing content from one to another is as simple as including the URL.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can natively cross-post though.

[–] litchralee 2 points 9 months ago

TIL. I've struck out the parts of my answer which don't reflect the present reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

whereas Lemmy is news aggregator.

Lemmy is ranked-threaded discussion software.

[–] litchralee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'll meet you half way, as the intro text at join-lemmy.com prominently proclaims: "Lemmy: a link aggregator for the Fediverse". I've edited my answer, although I'm concerned what other parts of it will prove to be wrong lol