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Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and? (lemmy.world)
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[-] firesidefedi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yes. This is how the internet was meant to be and how the Fediverse works. I just posted an Owncast lviestream to Lemmy and you could watch the livestream right in Lemmy. SOmeone can comment or like a Peertube video from Mastodon and it reflects on the Peertube video itself. It should all interconnect.

I'd recommend checking out piefed.social as well as what others recommended.

Or better yet, build your own if that's what you're thinking. :-D Always room in the fediverse for more projects imo!

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

An actual interconnected web? Blasphemy

[-] firesidefedi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I know right? Won't someone think of the shareholders? We need those walls and that lock in.

[-] ns1@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Not sure exactly what the question is but I'm fairly sure the answer is yes. 😀 Anyone can start a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and anyone can create new software that federates with it.

[-] Docker@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

My question is that since Lemmy/Mastodon are centred in Europe and hence is bound to follow the EU norms, can anybody create something similar to this - anywhere in the world outside of EU - and then federate it into lemmy/Mastodon ?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Not sure what you mean by "centred". They're both just software. Some of the developers certainly live there but they're both open-source projects with contributors from all over the world. And software doesn't have an originating country.

[-] Docker@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

But software developed and working in the EU zone does have to follow certain regulations.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

What does "developed and working" even mean? Both are developed using GitHub, which is owned by an American company. Servers are located around the world. Developers are located around the world.

[-] Docker@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Practically anybody is free to use GitHub. However, if l'm the developer, l need to comply with the laws of the country l live in/work from. The same regulations apply for the servers as well.

That's what I mean !! If I work from lndia and the server is located in lndia, then neither are bound by EU regulations pertaining to the internet/social media. At the best, the server would be barred from the EU.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

If I work from lndia and the server is located in lndia, then neither are bound by EU regulations pertaining to the internet/social media.

That's precisely my point though. You're referring to these softwares collectively but they can be deployed by anyone and hosted anywhere, so it's impossible to answer.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

What makes you think Lemmy is "centered" in the EU?

[-] Docker@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

Anything that doesn't go down well with the EU norms get banned immediately, sometimes the user too gets blocked.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.

You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

They are not centered in any location.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

You want a website and software that does Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time? That'd be kbin / mbin.

In part because of the kbin creator's real world struggles, it hasn't really taken off quite as well as Lemmy has, but its successor mbin is in use in a few places. I'm currently on fedia.io which is an mbin instance, for example.

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can post to Mastodon and tag Lemmy community and the Mastodon post will appear as a Lemmy post.

There are significant limitations to this approach such lack of graceful support for thumbnails, markdown (doesn't work on the Mastodon side) and URLs. I.e. it's only good fat basic text posts (or image only posts).

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