Unlike dogs where you are part of their "pack", for cats you are their mother - seriously, your petting them is their mother licking their fur to clean it, and their purs help you realize that they are alive and well.
The odd part is that in the wild, the kitten doesn't stay with the mother all that long. So unlike dogs, we keep cats in a permanent juvenile state - that's why they don't (so much) "obey", bc they are confident in their special status of being loved by mother.
They're not sending their best and brightest folks. And some I assume are good people, but...
Hehe, maybe it's been too long since I had to learn how to use email:-). (Though attaching files seems trivial - click button, click file, click attach? Unless, as indeed sometimes happens, Microsoft intervenes with its bullshit and prevents the receiver from being able to access what the sender meant to offer, by putting it onto the f-ing cloud and then blocking the receiver from accessing it there without jumping through several hoops, rather than simply "attaching the file" as was asked for. But at that point, I wouldn't blame "email" for MS profit-seeking behaviors, trying to work in advertisements for their services into what should have been an extremely simple procedure.)
Anyway, pressing the icon labelled as "cross-post" does not seem to always make a cross-post, or perhaps more precisely it sometimes can make a bidirectional linkage whereas other times it will only make a unidirectional one - thus allowing the post to show up multiple times in people's feeds, while also not notifying people who click on the original link from knowing that there even is a second one (i.e. it is not fully "cross-linked"). Even when done by the same author as back-to-back actions, and even when pressing the button when you are already at one of the posts - but in any case both the page and the Lemmy software definitely "knows" the origin of the post, as well as the destination point too. So bidirectional linkages seem like they could always be made? The URL perhaps made it easier for the software to do the tracking but it's not the only possible way?
Well, it's not like I am volunteering to learn Rust and contribute towards a solution - and beggers cannot be choosers - though I was just pointing out that there is a lot of such things that continue to trip people up. And the documentation for such seems noticeably lacking. e.g. the sidebar on my instance points to https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html as the get started guide, and lemmy.world points to a different guide at https://support.lemmy.world/quickstart/, but a search for the word "cross" pulls up zero hits in either of them.
I would volunteer to make a post in !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, except that even after all of this I find that I now know less about cross-posting than I thought I did back before I started:-). Also I think I am in the vast minority to use the webpage interface rather than any of the apps. Plus really, it seems like something that shouldn't need "explanation" as to why it doesn't work as expected, so much as working on the code to make it do so. Which is possibly already happening? And it sounds like something that needs back-end support, not something that an app could just do on its own.
Well, there's my TED talk I suppose:-P.
The one who is neither not-x nor not that not-x.
Not shitty enough: do better! 😜
Hrm, I see... yes that's odd bc e.g. this post is aware of the other one, but the reverse seems not true, and also these posts show up twice in my feed, sorted by Hot (do they not for you? Maybe try sorting by New and look around that timeframe) So I guess I don't know as much about cross-posting as I thought!?:-P
Fwiw, here are a couple of examples I was basing my thoughts on: example 1 example 2. They both have that "cross-posted to" notation, but it could be bc they are merely URL links, or perhaps bc they both happen to be on the same instance - and maybe cross-posting to different communities across multiple instances doesn't work quite the same way?
Working with the Fediverse is not "just like email" - this kind of thing continues to baffle those unaware (in this case, it seems all of us:-).
Bold to presume that we ever stopped
Someone slipped on poop and slammed their head into the wall
I mean... maybe you have never done that on purpose but... loosen up, live a little, try it and you might like it even!? 😉
Make absolutely certain to have the sound on - it's a big part of the whole experience!:-)
Please consider using the crosspoint feature to post identical content across the Fediverse. It helps avoid spamming people's feeds with each individual occurrence, and creates crosslinks that facilitates people to see where all the conversations are, spread across the various communities.
That, and you are like 20 times her size! (I assume your daughter isn't a lion, tiger, panther, etc.:-D)
She definitely wants to tear you to shreds though, you can tell. She also wants you to do it to her in return - just don't overdo it!:-)