Curious Mind Can anybody anywhere in the world đ 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?
Mastodon ?
Autonomous UserNo, mbin
BinetteIf you mean the ability to post at both at the same time, on the same site, thereâs mbin.
Not sure exactly what the question is but Iâm fairly sure the answer is yes. đ
Anyone can start a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and anyone can create new software that federates with it.
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 ?
What makes you think Lemmy is âcenteredâ in the EU?
Anything that doesnât go down well with the EU norms get banned immediately, sometimes the user too gets blocked.
Lemmy and Mastodon arenât 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 âEU normsââwhatever that meansâin a bubble of your own.
Where? Iâm not on an EU instance.
UlrichNot sure what you mean by âcentredâ. Theyâre both just software. Some of the developers certainly live there but theyâre both open-source projects with contributors from all over the world. And software doesnât have an originating country.
But software developed and working in the EU zone does have to follow certain regulations.
What does âdeveloped and workingâ 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.
Practically anybody is free to use GitHub. However, if lâm 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.
Thatâs 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.
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.
Thatâs precisely my point though. Youâre referring to these softwares collectively but they can be deployed by anyone and hosted anywhere, so itâs impossible to answer.
Alphane MoonYou 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 (doesnât work on the Mastodon side) and URLs. I.e. itâs only good fat basic text posts (or image only posts).
Fireside FediYes. 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.
Iâd recommend checking out piefed.social as well as what others recommended.
Or better yet, build your own if thatâs what youâre thinking. :-D Always room in the fediverse for more projects imo!
An actual interconnected web? Blasphemy
I know right? Wonât someone think of the shareholders? We need those walls and that lock in.
AusterOld post, but in case it's still useful, Mbin's been working great as a bridge for propagating posts between services from my experience. Lemmy can fetch posts from thread-based instances pretty well, but on other things, Mbin feels the gap, like having from what I can notice an easier time tracking Peertube, its boosts allow propagating pretty much any posts to microblogging platforms, and being able to follow users, their posts (either from threads or microblogs) get tracked automatically, no need to look for the post's link on the search field.
So my lemmy post got federated to brainbin ??? How can I connect my lemmy account with my brainbin account ??
Lemmy.World federates to potentially any platforms as long as they also use ActivityPub and are not defederated/defederating. However, compatibility may vary, and some rather sporadic cases from some tests I did outright wouldn't work.
And to my knowledge, it's not possible to connect accounts for them to behave like one. What is is having your accounts in different services follow each other.
Mbin, Peertube, Misskey and Mastodon allow that from my experience. I would presume other microblogging and video platfroms allow that too, though still have to test them.
And just in case, to clarify, Mbin (software) tries to act as a mix of threads (like Reddit) and microblogging (like Twitter and Facebook). The/Brain/Bin (my main instance) runs on Mbin software. Lemmy is focused as a threads platform, but you can't follow users directly there.