• @cm0002
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    319 hours ago

    Does Lemmy federate with pixelfed posts?

    • @[email protected]
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      127 hours ago

      They do. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don’t think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can’t see any of your posts/comments.

      • @cm0002
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        47 hours ago

        Yea I’ve been trying too, I can also search, see and “follow” comms and it’ll pull up things like the sidebar info, but actual content is missing

        So it’s there, but very broken unfortunately. I should make a note to open an issue if there’s not one already

    • mesamune
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      8 hours ago

      Most servers do. Depends on their block/allow list and their setup.

      The software supports it, you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

      Its not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done after that. (I tested this on an older version of lemmy and a new bleeding edge version of pixelfed)

      One of the biggest ongoing issues with lemmy is that all the other fediverse systems generally work together pretty well but then you get to lemmy and it works…kinda? Mostly? But there is always quirks, like only being able to post but not see comments. as I say on lemmy :). I like the platform because of the ongoing community that seems to stick around and have sustainable growth (like oooold reddit).

      • @[email protected]
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        37 hours ago

        you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side

        OK so I went to my pixelfed.social account, searched for “@[email protected]” and clicked on the “follow” button.

        and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

        So… does it have to be a lemmy account on lemmy.world (for [email protected], say). And is there any particular pixelfed account that the lemmy account has to follow?

        Thanks for the lead.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 hours ago

              I think I figured it out… consider the following links:

              These all refer to the main developer of pixelfed, dansup. The first one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on slrpnk.net where my account is. The second one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance. The third one is dansup’s pixelfed account followed on lemmy.today, which is your instance.

              The account is visible to me on the first two links. HYPOTHESIS: I think that means it’s “being followed” by those instances? The account is NOT visible on the last link for me, I just get an error. NeatoBuilds, take a look at the last link: it might give you an error the first time, but HYPOTHESIS: if you refresh, I think it will be visible and that means it’s “being followed” on your instance lemmy.today.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 hours ago

      Yeeees, but the two won’t generally see each other unless they try. That’s my understanding.