PieFed help

Yes, I've been somewhat frustrated with the text handling in the past with Pixelfed. Short snippets and replies from within Pixelfed itself are mostly okay I've found, but I've had some issues here and there with PeerTube and Funkwhale too.

Some of the issues are just in the differences that things are handled, and others seem to be either a disregard for the importance of cross-platform communications in the Fediverse or just antipathy towards other platforms in general - it just depends.

Little by little however, things generally seem to coalesce as such interactions between users across platforms becomes more common (it's not a good look when it's obvious to others seeing what you're describing - especially on prominent platforms).

The best advice I can offer, taking into account that many or even most devs are hard at work elsewhere putting food on the table for their families, is to be patient, but consistent, following up every now and again with questions on progress, being careful to respect the work they do that pays most often nothing at all, thanking them for doing their best, and perhaps most importantly, taking the time to actually address such matters in their trouble ticket / issue tracker systems in their home Git repos where all of this can be tracked.

Not every platform matures and advances as quickly and with the UX in mind that PieFed does :) But yeah, handling and displaying of text within Pixelfed seems to remain an afterthought while other projects that Dansup is working on seemingly get the priority attention. Filing issues at the Git repos I think is very important, because others can chime in as well, nudging the dev to address issues that are obviously perturbing other users as well.