Thanks, that makes sense. I had been starting to reach this conclusion as well (outer list being generated by the Lemmy server and link in body being generated by the client). It also appears that the server-generated list requires that the original post link to an external “article” to cross-reference. I’ve edited my post to say I consider it solved.
No problem, thanks for trying! I don’t know either.
Thanks for the additional example to analyze. It has no article URL but has both styles of cross-post links. This is a bit maddening.
I had thought manually added for a long time too, but then lately I’ve realized that the pattern is too perfectly consistent, across multiple users.
I’m leaning towards a weird front-end or app too, something that maybe implemented cross-posting before Lemmy’s native functionality. One clue I’ve received from someone who posted something like that is that they used Alexandrite, but I don’t have access to that to do some testing.
But the original post in the screenshot in the OP has no body text and yet has the hard-link in the body? Thanks for trying to help me understand, but I’m still not seeing the pattern.
Thank you. So you’re saying that the cross-post link that shows at the top, under the title and header, is cross-referenced by the destination article URL. That makes sense. But how about the hard-link in the body? What creates that, and under what circumstances? Going by what you said, I would think that it would be generated if someone cross-posted a post that did not link to an external URL, but then then that wouldn’t explain the one I linked in the OP, which has an article URL but has both styles of cross-post links.
This is what I’m suspecting too. I asked the person who posted this one: https://mander.xyz/post/55967082 and they said that they had used Alexandrite.
Thanks. I think what you mentioned about Lemmy being able to find the cross-post automatically may be close to the explanation for why this happens.
I would just like to know what to expect and why. I cross-posted something a couple of days ago and it did not show or give me the option to show the hard-link in the body: https://lemmy.ca/post/68531648
Can you provide an example of a crosspost that doesn’t show the link in the top part?
Thanks for your response and I’m glad you asked this. Yes, I can: https://mander.xyz/post/55967082
That’s the thing, I’ve usually seen one style or the other. The post in the screenshot (linked in the OP) is the first time I’ve seen both. Notice if you follow the cross-post link on the one I linked on this comment, it doesn’t have any cross-post link back.
I’m just trying to figure out the pattern here, so I know what to expect and why.
Thanks, but unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, I don’t think that’s the case. The one on top seems to be a relative link (meaning it links to anyone’s local instance) and the one on the bottom is a hard link. It would be fine if it was just that, but the problem is that most cross-posts don’t show both, and also the second one only shows on the new cross-post and not on the original post. The whole thing is unpredictable and confusing, and I’m a techie. I can only imagine how much it confuses non-techies.
‘user_already_exists’ sounds like maybe the username is already in use, not the email address. Try to visit lemmy.ml/u/(the username you’re trying to use) to confirm if a profile by that name already exists on that server.
Very cool, thanks. I had heard of the app for Android and wished that it were available for iPhone as well, but I didn’t realize that it was also a website. I need to get back to contributing to OpenStreetMap. I’ve only made a couple of edits a while back.
Yes, that is frustrating that the way some people post prevents the cross-linking from working. I wonder if they don’t know that it has that effect.
Thanks again, and you’re welcome.