The title is borked in Lemmy. It’s just a portion of the body text, including link tags which don’t work on titles. I think there are some formatting guides out there if you want to continue trying to post to Lemmy via Mastodon.
Edit: there’s a Mastodon to Lemmy guide at the bottom of this post
lemmy.worldWelcome to Alternative Nation! Recommendations On How To Post... - Lemmy.worldHELLO & WELCOME to Alternative Nation, the Fediverse’s largest alternative &
indie music community! We are all so happy you are here. You love music, we love
music, and here we are, headphones on, in our own little world happily outside
the mainstream while also supporting the growth of Lemmy, Kbin, & the Fediverse
at large. 💕 Figured it was time to talk about recommendations on how to format
your posts for maximum visibility & engagement and also let you know the
different ways you can post to the community. Sound good? Let’s go! 🔊 POST
FORMAT RECOMMENDATION 🎵 Key word here is “recommendation”. I don’t think we
need strict rules to post, but here’s what I recommend: 1. Band - Song or Album
Title: At the very least, this should be included in your post title. Pretty
standard way of identifying something. No worries about quotation marks, the
text and the dash are more than enough. 2. [Description Brackets]: Totally up to
you, but personally I’ve been enjoying adding [Fresh] if the song or album is
pretty new within the last week or two or so, or adding [Stream] if it’s a link
to an album stream link on Songwhip. 3. Dates or small commentary after the
title: Again, you do you. Year of release can be nice for older tracks & albums,
or if you have a strong emotion about the album that you think needs to be in
the title, go for it - though I think the caption section is probably best. 4.
Album Art/Image or Link?: Lemmy is set up to share an image or a link as the
primary content. Personally, I love album art or a cool image of the artist and
would rather share the link to the music, video, or article in the caption.
Lemmy’s auto-thumbnails seem hit or miss, so to me it makes a richer post. But
again, you do you! Great! But let’s say you aren’t posting from Lemmy or Kbin?
🔊 POSTING FROM MASTODON, FIREFISH, & OTHER FEDIVERSE MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS 🎶
While having a Lemmy/Kbin account is the best way to not miss any comments, you
don’t need to be on Lemmy to post here. By tagging
“@alternativenation@lemmy.world” in a Mastodon, Firefish (Calckey), or other
federated microblogging platform post, you also actually post to our community!
How cool is that! But the format of your post can get real janky if you don’t
follow a certain format. My recommendation is set up your Mastodon et al post in
the following way: 1. Make the 1st line of the post the title like “Band - Song
or Album Title” - no hashtags or account tags here, they get real messed up on
Lemmy. 2. After the line break from the title, include your caption and any
links. Feel free to add hashtags in the caption area (I know people follow
hashtags on Mastodon et al) 3. Include “@AlternativeNation@lemmy.world” in the
post (just not in the first line, please). This is how the post gets posted
here! 4. Finally, I recommend adding an image to the post - this will be the
thumbnail on Lemmy!
HAPPY LISTENING! That’s it y’all! Hope this helps. Please spread the word to all
your alternative music fans here, on Mastodon, and even on Reddit. Let’s build
something special together. Cheers, Ren
@michelin@hachyderm.io
!) if you have a Lemmy account as well.
