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Is it possible to create a Lemmy post with an external link from Mastodon?

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:
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

Wander ,
@Wander@yiffit.net avatar

Images are possible, but I don’t think links are unless you find a way to “attach” a link to a Mastodon post.

lackthought OP ,
@lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

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 :)

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