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.
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 “centered” in the EU?
Anything that doesn’t go down well with the EU norms get banned immediately, sometimes the user too gets blocked.
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.
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.
But software developed and working in the EU zone does have to follow certain regulations.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Old 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.
Mastodon ?
