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Idk but I just kept tapping the profile button and then it just started working lmfao

You’re right, this is the first app I’ve seen that actually does not show a crosspost menu, the absolute irony that it’s the official Lemmy android app lolol

Maybe if I have some time this weekend I could fix it myself and see if dessalines will merge it lol

Can I ask why you stick with Jerboa? Years ago I used it because it was the most functional at the time of the great Reddit migration, but it was so buggy I stopped using Lemmy altogether for like 2 months until Boost came out

https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/1666

Lol I remember the buggy mess that is Jerboa, even now I installed it fresh to login and check the crosspost for you and…it crashed and reopening it works and shows logged in but I can’t do anything because apparently my account is being verified lmao

Jerboa is essentially alpha maybe beta, and dessalines has stated he doesn’t have the time to work on it between Lemmy server and Lemmy UI

Removed by mod

Not sure why you’d want to forward traffic to an instance who has admins that are transphobic and push Russian propaganda but you do you, I can’t stop you :)

It has to do with the proxying URLs on images [A rare instance related issue]

On the clients that were mentioned:

Here’s Thunder

Here’s the dbzer0 web interface

All with proper crossposting menus, anything else you’d like to misrepresent or lie about?

No I wasn’t lmao tell me the front end or app that doesn’t show the crosspost menu, should be easy since you’re so sure

There’s no such app, they all have the crosspost menu afaik, if you know of one, lmk even though you still havent

Don’t link to or participate on Lemmy.ml, join the boycott today!

I find your propensity to misrepresent, distort and lie distasteful and find it hilarious that you’re trying to take some higher ground lmao

I didn’t ignore anyone I literally tried to correct the problem and then replied and explained to them what was probably going on, my reply is in your link. That case was that weird image proxy problem that was rare that I mentioned

And also, didn’t answer my question and conveniently dodged it, what app specifically doesn’t show the crosspost section?

As to the rest of your post, I’ve already explained to you multiple times

1. I attribute OC. Attribution does not require a link back.
2. The vast majority of what i crosspost are links to news articles, blog posts, videos etc.
3. What are images or direct posts e.g. memes are just reposts of a repost of a repost and even when they aren’t, it’s a meme, when have memes ever been required to be attributed? On any platform?
4. I do explain when applicable where I got something when asked about it, prove that I didn’t

I have done this for many months now, across thousands of crossposts, I know the crossposting system. It isn’t buggy and that menu is available on most web clients and apps from the default Lemmy UI to tesseract to photon to alexdrite to boost and voyager to jerboa. There’s the rare occasional hiccup, but it’s mostly due to fighting these stupid image proxying rules some instances do. Certainly doesn’t happen frequently enough to justify a direct link, which does in fact harm these efforts.

Show me an app that doesn’t do it

It’s in a sub menu, adding just enough friction

A link to the OP directly in the post. Just like you did for the author, but for the actual post.

Adding the author is for attribution and the tag maintains the friction, a user has a direct link to the author and it’s up to them to seek it out, I will not be the one to give them easy access

If you’re using Boost, why are you removing the cross post text that is automatically included for this very reason? It really makes it seem like you just want to take others posts and claim them as your own.

I actually don’t, it’s too slow for my work flow

But, I do actively strip it from my own posts that I’m crossposting. Why? Because I despise it, it’s clear it’s just a left over from before the crossposting system was robust and the clients had their own dedicated menu for it. And it causes stupid shit like this to the posts:

Link

Link

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Actual body text

I have done this for many months now, across thousands of crossposts, I know the crossposting system. It isn’t buggy and that menu is available on most web clients and apps from the default Lemmy UI to tesseract to photon to alexdrite to boost and voyager to jerboa. There’s the rare occasional hiccup, but it’s mostly due to fighting these stupid image proxying rules some instances do. Certainly doesn’t happen frequently enough to justify a direct link, which does in fact harm these efforts

Show me an app that doesn’t

If your problem is linking to ML, then you are defeating the point by your own logic, since according to you, all Lemmy frontends automatically add the cross post link to ML to your posts. You just shouldn’t rip posts from ML if you have a problem with merely linking to the OP and giving the original author proper credit.

It’s in a sub menu, adding just enough friction

It makes it worse if you’re actually using Boost to do these reposts, because that means that you’re actively stripping the automatic cross post link out.

I actually don’t, it’s too slow for my work flow

But, I do actively strip it from my own posts that I’m crossposting. Why? Because I despise it, it’s clear it’s just a left over from before the crossposting system was robust and the clients had their own dedicated menu for it. And it causes stupid shit like this to the posts:

Link

Link

Link

Actual body text

They never properly cross post content.

Meanwhile, in the land of reality, my last 6 .ml crossposts on this account of time of commenting:

Why are you so concerned with my vote? I’m not the only one downvoting when you post them lmao

It’s R-Q-Lite to me because it’s also S-Q-L to me

I will die on this hill.

He’s already got me hooked deep lol making me watch a 3 hour video on…phones LMAO