I hadn’t gone exploring through the settings till now. You can add a share button for your instance by going to Settings > Sharing > Add sharing method. After that you just paste in your instance URL (ex. https://lemmy.ca for me). The steps are the same for both Lemmy and Mastodon

Makes it much easier to share content here :)

As for the setting I was looking for, press “J” to jump to the next article

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My thoughts: Please don’t make Lemmy a linkdump. Only post that in the news communities or if you’re genuinely interested in a discussion. And then add some text of your own, what you’d like to discuss about that, what you find interesting about it or a short summary for people to decide whether they want to click on the link.

    I see a lot of news just dumped to Lemmy with 0 interaction or engagement. And it’s often duplicated because I already have a feedreader. I think that’s more a use-case for Mastodon.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      4 months ago

      So, just to split hairs: Lemmy is a link aggregator, so it’s really better suited for this than Mastodon by design. BTW, please don’t make Mastodon a linkdump (I use that more than Lemmy) 🙂

      Also, if you’re using a feed reader and Lemmy for news, then yes. There will be duplicates, but that is pretty much a problem in your setup, isn’t it? Can’t really fault either app for it.

      All that said, I completely agree that just posting an URL without context or comment is unhelpful on any social platform. It’s always good to know what has motivated someone else to share a news item (especially in politics and other sports!).