@zenity Yeah seems like retaining the monyet.cc tagging is needed for the reply to work correctly. Also it seems like when cross posting, the first line must be short and with a line break after, otherwise it will not appear on lemmy.
yeah, but lemmy users won't need to tag the community, so it works okay for one-way communication with the original poster being on mastodon and all the repliers being on lemmy.
it's also a good opportunity to teach lemmy users the importance of regularly clicking the rainbow fediverse icon to check if they're missing anything that hasn't federated over.