Fediverse @lemmy.ml 🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴 @vegantheoryclub.org 3w ago

Are there any pixelfed to lemmy "bridges" or can I view lemmy communities in pixelfed?

I run a community on my instance called Vegan Home Cooks which is ultimately just pictures of what people cooked that day. I was wondering if there is a way to leverage the new interest in Pixelfed to drive users to it and maybe bridge it some how. I haven't really tried Pixelfed yet and was wondering what your experience has been with it

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The Pixelfed developer has been teasing Lemmy compatible groups for some years now. Apparently the code already exists, but for some reason it never gets merged.

At one point last year it looked like it would finally be released soon and I even set up a Pixelfed instance on my server to test it, but then somehow they decided working on Loops and Sup. was more important.

I got so annoyed by this lack of focus on basic functionality in general and a few other things regarding it that I deleted the instance again and do not plan to bother with anything this dev puts out again. Best of luck to them though, but I have better things to do with my time...
- Fediverse blueballing
- Thanks for the explanation, I guess it is a wait and see. Maybe I can make some kind of reposting bot in the mean time for kicks
- I think they actually just put out a fresh teaser post about it.
@hamid this compatibility really needs to be ironed out, @dansup what can we do to start the process of adding more compatibility between the networks?
- Interesting, thanks for the tagging thru the mastodon compatibility!
  
  @hamid lemmy really needs to work on their mention tagging support too (:
- @hamid @dansup what do you think @dessalines, what can we do to iron out better compatibility, cause the current situation is not great
Maybe it works the same way with Pixelfed as it does between Mastodon etc. and Lemmy? 🚀 A little guide on how to communicate with Lemmy from Mastodon Friendica Hubzilla Sharkey etc..

I have not yet been able to test it with Pixelfed because I don't have an account.
- Pixelfed only shows messages with images attached.
  
  That is probably the default setting. However, you can also set Pixelfed to display posts without an image. I don't know where exactly, but Pixelfed users wrote this because it has been asked about it several times.
They both use ActivityPub, so the two platforms can communicate with each other. I think it is just a matter of promoting your community.

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