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  • Both Mastodon and Lemmy (and Mbin) expose an API, which can be used to develop an alternative client (for e.g. mobile). This allows even for several alternative front-ends, like Elk, Phanpy and pl-fe for Mastodon (and Pleroma and Akkoma and some Misskey forks and several projects for single-user-instances - all of these extend Mastodon API in some way), or Photon, mlmym and Blorp for Lemmy. GoToSocial (made for single-user-instances) does not provide any webUI, pointing to these alternative front-ends. Lemdro.id even swapped its interface for Photon.

    Mastodon clients list (scroll down) and Lemmy clients list

    Technically one is able to develop a Fediverse instance software which would provide both Mastodon API (likely with extensions) and Lemmy API. With e.g. microblogging (and maybe events?) used via pl-fe and Threadiverse content more easily available via Photon or Blorp? But I am not aware of any project like that.

  • Twitter mirrors
    Instagram mirrors
    Reddit mirrors for posts

    Corporate social networks generally don't like being mirrored by a competition and actively fight with these.

    Bluesky was being mirrored like this by Bridgy, but as it is a two-way bridge and Mastodon users did not expect their data leak to another network they bullyed Bridgy dev into making it opt-in.

    There are more issues to mass-mirroring content from outside and I hope others will tell about them.

  • Exactly like that.