I know a Mastodon user can create a new post by mentioning a Lemmy community, but I believe it is just a text post

Here was an example I found of this:
https://lemmy.world/post/82145

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a post in Lemmy via Mastodon that is a link to somewhere else such as a website?

I suppose I could just put the link in the body of the text post but a direct link would be cool, if possible

  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    interesting, maybe I’ll have to dig around the ActivityPub documentation to see how data is formatted

    I posted a link to Lemmy (from Lemmy) and now I’m viewing the post from Mastodon to see if I can determine how the data flows

    the link appears directly in the Mastodon post view but the text I entered on the Lemmy post didn’t show up in Mastodon

    maybe this would work as a linked post from Mastodon to Lemmy?:

    TitleOfPost
    some-link-to-an-external-url
    @communityname@lemmyinstance

    but that may just create a text post with the link as the ‘text’

    I guess I need to try it out with a test post or in a test community so I’m not spamming anyone with my testing :)