• Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    The WebUI shows crossposts with direct links and the body has a header.

    Or maybe I didn’t understand you? :)

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      What I’m asking is:

      Why did you write “crossposted from:” and then the link to the original post in the body? I don’t understand why you did that when the web UI already credits the crosspost, as depicted in the image I showed where it says “cross-posted to: games@lemmy.world”. Click that and it also takes you to the original post, so no need for your post body crediting it.

      I then concluded that you probably did that because whatever you use (maybe your home instance of lemmy.world, or that you are not on a browser) doesn’t actually show the “cross-posted to: games@lemmy.world”, and so you had to put the credit in yourself.

      • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOPM
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        2 months ago

        Ah, I see.

        If you have a body text (anything), the Lemmy UI will add a crossposting notice (in the body text with the source text being quoted) automatically.

        It’s done automatically even thought there is a crossposting notice on the UI level.

        I actually sometimes remove the notice and quotes when crossposting, but this time I forgot to do it.

        • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          Huh. That’s weird, because I have put text bodies on some of my crossposted and got no automatic crossposting notice in the body. I only use Lemmy from the browser. Maybe this is a .world thing.