Submitted 6 months ago by Docker@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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?
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.
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.
If you mean the ability to post at both at the same time, on the same site, there’s mbin.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 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).