I recently set up a latest version instance, and I've been able to follow Mastodon accounts. However, it only shows image posts from them.

So, it might be a version thing, indeed.

That said, this would still mean that up to a reasonable recent version, federation was *not* working. Which means that federation is placed on a low prio in #pixelfed.

That is fine, but not clearly communicated, IMO.

And it will (and IMO should) get critique from the fediverse. IMO a product should only market itself to the fediverse when it actually supports federating with that community. Not before.

It’s been a popular running joke to ask @dansup® when did #PixelFed federate because he said himself that he wanted to get multiple things right first before releasing this feature. Someone even bought the doespixelfedfederateyet.com or something.