I have only an up and a down arrow, wtf is a heart react
Here’s a screenshot of how this post looks from within a PieFed instance:
FB meme
PieFed also offers emoji reactions, I see 3 distinct types on this post so far.
Do they federate with any other platforms?
Yes absolutely. Not only are they federated, but they are even exposed via the API, as described in more detail at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api. Of course it is up to each recipient to decide how or whether to do anything with that, but it’s there whenever they are ready for it, and emojis show on the PieFed web UI.
See also https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/9098/fep-9098.md e.g.:
This document is based on implementations of custom emojis in Pleroma, Mastodon, Misskey and Fedibird.
That said, I am not certain if they can all interrelate currently, as opposed to merely representing similar ideals. This should help get you started if you wanted to do more deep diving though:-).
…kinda?
They do federate, so that I can see reactions from other PieFed instances just fine. But Lemmy does not use the data for anything. It just passes it on for whoever can use it.
I was asking specifically about other “platforms” besides piefed because I’m curious how supported are emoji reactions across the fediverse. I had around a year of break form the fediverse so I’m a bit ootl on recent developments.
@Martineski @Tuuktuuk I know Pleroma (and its derrivatives: Soapbox, Nicolium, Akkorma) have for many years now. Friendica recently added limited support. Nostr does, but I’m not sure if its federates across the bridge. I suspect Misskey does, but I’ve never actually used it. That’s all I can think of off-hand.
@Martineski @Tuuktuuk actually Nostr must federate it across the bridge, because you can connect your Pleroma account to a lightning wallet and then use the ⚡react to send/receive zaps (bitcoin microtransactions) over NOSTR.
I am fairly certain no other platforms support them at the moment.
