I have only an up and a down arrow, wtf is a heart react
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 third-party app 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:-).

Emoji reactions in the PieFed API

PieFed v1.4 (to be released very soon) will have emoji reactions on posts and comments. An emoji reaction can be a unicode character like 😍 or a co…