This is my question too. I'm not really interested in adding mastodon, etc. Posts to my feed, but I do want to see more pictures and I hoping someone can explain how to add pixelfed content to lemmy subscriptions/feed.

[–] windie 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Apparently it depends on the community? I just tagged "@[email protected]" and it worked. My first try was with c/cats and it didn't work.

[–] Dee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you link the post? I'm curious to see how that looks on Lemmy

[–] Crul 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(not OP)

Probably this one https://lemmy.world/post/2653518

It's the only one posted to c/pics from pixelfed.social in the last hour.

[–] Dee 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like it, thanks for sharing!

[–] windie 3 points 1 year ago

Correct. That's the post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happens if someone creates a user with the same name as the community?

[–] Crul 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not an expert, those who know more, please correct me.

I think all name disambiguation is made by adding the instance name after. So if someone has the user pics in pixelfed.social, it would be [email protected], while the lemmy.world community would be [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean if on Pixelfed you @[email protected], what happens if there's a user with that name. Does it post to the community or send a message to the user somehow?

On lemmy communities start with ! while users start with @ .. but it looks like you used @ to reference the community

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago

I think you are right, but here it is where my knowledge falls short and why I didn't write @[email protected] or [email protected]. I think those would be user and community respectively.

[–] Zak 2 points 1 year ago

As /c/cats and /u/cats both exist, this is easy to test.

Here's the post - Lemmy seems to prioritize the community.