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How can I crosspost a post to a community that is not available in the dropdown menu? Or alternatively, how can I add a community to the menu for cross-posting? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've tried to cross post a posting in lemmy.ca/c/TIL to lemmy.world/c/women, but there's no community option for that community.

I've also noticed, when logged into my account on lemmy.world, I have different community options to cross post to than if I'm logged into my lemmy.ca account.

How can you cross post to communities that are not yet in the drop down menu?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it's there now. When I had typed in the community name, it wasn't able to find it. Thank you for your answer! I wouldn't have checked again and this clears up some things for me.

It looks like there's the same mechanism as in the the regular community search:

(Just writing this out for people who haven't run into this yet)

When you are the first (few) one(s) looking for a community that is not linked to your instance yet, it won't show up in your search. However, if you or others have searched for it several times, it'll show up in the community list. It looks like the communities listed in the drop down menu for cross posting follows the same algorithm.