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:

  1. Can Mastodon users see/reply to comments from Pixelfed users?
  2. Can Pixelfed users see/reply to Mastodon users’ comments on Pixelfed?
  3. Or do I need to get a Mastodon account to see / interact with them?
  4. 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
  5. How is it decided which Mastodon posts get seen by Pixelfed users?
  6. 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.