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I love that I'm seeing more and more posts to Lemmy from Mastodon.
This one feature finally ties Lemmy in with the rest of the fediverse by providing the lacking feature: making top level posts. Lemmy (along with friendica!) will lead the way in making "groups" and forums in the fediverse, accessible from any platform you choose.
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in reply to JackFromWisconsin

It will be perfect, once they fix the HTML formatting in the subject :)
in reply to Ada

The formatting works perfect my instance, v0.17.2. Do you still need to upgrade?
in reply to Ada

When you write from Friendica (or another social network) to post on Lemmy, you must respect some basic rules.

Here I tried to write a handbook (in Italian) to help users write posts that have a readable title and work well

https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-lemmy

Furthermore, as regards the titles, you must take into account that Lemmy only interprets up to 200 characters; when exceeding 200 characters, the title is truncated.
To count the characters, however, you have to consider the BBCode characters of the source text, which are converted into Markdown in Lemmy.
So you have to be careful that "marked" text strings don't end up at the 200th character!
Here are some additional notes:

https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-friendica
in reply to Informapirata

Not quite what I meant. I don't use Mastodon. I was referring to the fact that some posts from Mastodon users are showing up on my lemmy instance with mark-up displayed in the subject line.

But that's because I haven't updated my lemmy instance to the latest version :)
in reply to Ada

This has been fixed already, otherwise you would see HTML in the title of this post as well.
in reply to nutomic

Yep! I was still seeing it on my instance because I haven't updated yet
in reply to JackFromWisconsin

indeed! great to see Lemmy improving its compatibility

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in reply to Anders Rytter Hansen

Lemmy has to make workarounds, because mastodon does not support subjects...

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in reply to Jakob :lemmy:

Would be great to see subject lines supported in Mastodon. Anything that helps intercompatibiity is a win-win

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in reply to Jakob :lemmy:

@Jakob :lemmy:
Well good point 😂 the problem is that it's very few platforms which are supporting subjects , not only Mastodon who doesn't. You will also have problems from Misskey and Pleroma for example.
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Ada
That doesn't bother me :)

I'll look at getting our upgrade done this weekend though and get to that future you mentioned :)
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Jakob :lemmy:
It uses it as attachment...

And yes... i would prefer, if mastodon could handle subjects...