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That looks like it might be an image for which there's no cached version stored on your server, that's why it works when you view it on its original server.
Servers may restrict how long they store images from other servers, in order to reduce their storage costs. Most old posts are never viewed again, so most of the time people don't notice if the image isn't stored.
Normally if you view an old post it fetches the image again, but sometimes it shows "preview not available".
If you're looking at your normal "Home" timeline you see the latest posts at the top, so the related messages (also called a "thread") appear to be in reverse order. The unrelated posts are from other accounts you follow which have posted at around the same time.
If you click on any one of these related messages, you will see the entire thread in the correct order instead, plus all of its replies below the thread. The unrelated posts will disappear while viewing a thread.
@MuhammadFreeSoftware @vnikolov
If one person follows an account, all of that account's posts from that moment onward will appear on that person's server.
So, if a server has a bot following good accounts, those good accounts' posts will start being visible to everyone on that server.
The reason it works like this is to keep server running costs low enough so that any person or group can afford to start their own.
"Translate" is there if the admin has paid for a translation service, but this costs them money every month and there is a limit on queries per month so this option may sometimes disappear.
Ask your server admin if you want to find out the exact situation on your serrver.
A workaround would be copy-pasting the text into a different translation app or site.
Not a stupid question at all!
You can change who sees posts or replies by adjusting their "visibility setting".
The visibility setting is visible above your post or reply and looks like "
️ Public" or something similar. Click on this, then change it to "Private mention" or "Only people I mention", then save the setting.
You can also set a particular visibility to be your default, if you prefer not to use public by default.
More info about all of this at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/
The format of the website interface?
They did a post about their reasons at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/
As far as I know there's no complete guide anywhere, probably because there are so many platforms and they are constantly changing so it would be quite labour-intensive for a volunteer to create and maintain.
Favourites on Mastodon generally translate to the equivalent of likes on other platforms (e.g. on PeerTube a Mastodon favourite becomes a thumbs up).
Pixelfed lets you view Mastodon posts by following Mastodon accounts, but by default it only shows posts with images or videos.
Are you viewing it through the website?
At least when I've tried it with a mastodon.social account it shows trends?
How are you trying to add it? Is it an option in a mobile app?
If you're using the "add text from image", that just copies text in the image, it doesn't provide a description.
(Manual descriptions tend to be better anyway as the person posting understands the point of an image and doesn't bother with irrelevant details.)
It still says "Trending" on most servers, Mastodon's developers seem to be experimenting with renaming it "Explore" on mastodon.social (which is what it was called years ago!).
I don't know which one they will use on the release version, but I agree, trending is a clearer name.
Where or how are you getting auto alt text?
Ahh okay, yeah it does seem to have a lot of features 
Some server types do go down the "lots of features" route, Friendica is another one.
However, what usually happens is that each feature isn't as good as it is on a specialised platform. For example PeerTube is dedicated to video so it has much better features for hosting long videos, livestreaming, doing playlists, sharing bandwidth etc.
So, it's always a trade-off when developing features.
Yup, that too! By default Pixelfed ignores posts without images or videos attached. You can switch that off so that text posts become visible for accounts you follow, but you can't do your own text-only posts from pixelfed.
I'm not sure what you mean by bringing them together? Is there something specific you wanted to do?
If you want multiple kinds of features on a server, that's up to the developers writing that server's software.
To post from a server, you need an account on that server. So, if you want to post from Pixelfed you need an account on a Pixelfed server etc.
Following however is much more open, you can follow almost all Fediverse account types from general social media server types such as Mastodon, GoToSocial, Friendica etc.
In PeerTube's particular case though, other types of servers can follow you but you can only follow other PeerTube channels/accounts.
I'm not sure, its profile isn't visible, but from the name it sounds like it's there to help federate the posts of certain accounts onto its server.
If you have any questions about using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse, please post them in the replies and I'll try to find you some answers.
It would be especially nice to hear from new people and people who aren't confident about technical matters. There is absolutely no such thing as a silly question!
Failures can happen for all kinds of reasons, such as temporary technical problems on the server of the person you're following, or their server blocks your new server.
It might be worth importing the list again in a few days' time, using the "merge" option so that it doesn't try to refollow the ones that worked.
(It's the same thing with transferring followers, sometimes repeating the process makes failed followers transfer correctly.)
A lot of people stressed over past couple of days! 
Hope it all goes well for your update
