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!
An actual interconnected web? Blasphemy
I know right? Won’t someone think of the shareholders? We need those walls and that lock in.
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.
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.
