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How do Pixelfed and Mastodon interact? (self.pixelfed)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by klu9 to c/pixelfed

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Still new to the fediverse.

I see some posts on Pixelfed (I have a pixelfed.ca account) that come from people on Mastodon.

I can:

view those posts
like those posts
comment on those posts
see comments from other Pixelfed users
see occasional comments from Mastodon users
reply to comments from other Pixelfed users
follow the Mastodon user

All on Pixelfed (web).

But when, on pixelfed.ca, I click a Mastodon user's post's three-dot menu and then "View Post", it takes me to a Mastodon page and:

I see lots more comments that don't appear on pixelfed
I don't see my own comments
I don't see comments from anyone whose fediverse instance seems to be pixelfed-related

On Pixelfed.ca, I don't think I have ever seen:

a reply to me from a non-pixelfed user (but hey, I'm new, so maybe that's just me)
(not sure about replies to others from non-pixelfed users)

So my questions are:

Can Mastodon users see/reply to comments from Pixelfed users?
Can Pixelfed users see/reply to Mastodon users' comments on Pixelfed?
Or do I need to get a Mastodon account to see / interact with them?
Can I link to a specific post by a Mastodon user as it's shown on PIxelfed? For this post I wanted to link to an example post as it's shown on both Pixelfed and Mastodon, but the links I can get from Pixelfed ("View Post" or clicking on post time & date) go only to Mastodon. E.g. https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/114371745785506928
How is it decided which Mastodon posts get seen by Pixelfed users?
Any other handy info on Pixelfed-Mastodon interaction?

PS I may not have covered all the possible interactions, or got them all right. Another one I just thought of: do we see each other's likes? I don't think on PIxelfed I see all the likes of Mastodon users.

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[–] breakfastmtn 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You can see and interact with Pixelfed posts from Mastodon. You can see and interact with Mastodon posts with media from Pixelfed.

A reason why you may not be seeing posts or comments from Pixelfed.ca is that it's a young server. You only see posts/comments made after federation. Poor federation can also lead to missing comments -- especially from smaller, obscure servers -- in the conversation chain. That isn't unique to Pixelfed. I have the same problem on my Friendica server. It'll improve over time.

[–] klu9 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

Re the example I posted (dated 20th April 2025), there are almost 60 comments when I view from Mastodon, and just 1 (other than mine) when I view on pixelfed.ca.

Does this mean all those other commenters' instances are federated with universeodon.com but not with pixelfed.ca?

[–] Sturgist 2 points 4 days ago

Or it could be that their instance is blocked by pixelfed.ca. It's more likely to be like the person you're replying to said, and since pixelfed.ca is relatively new instance they're playing catch-up with federation. I don't use pixelfed or mastodon really, so I'm not entirely sure the way things are the same or different than lemmy for federation. Not even entirely sure how inter-app federation is supposed to function when it's working properly if I'm honest......