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Comment on 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?

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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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Docker@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
But software developed and working in the EU zone does have to follow certain regulations.

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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  - Docker@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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    Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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