What is a Fediverse Galaxy? (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 1 year ago by liaizon@social.wake.st to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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What is a Fediverse Galaxy?

As more and more instances are providing multiple services under the same management, we need a term to talk about this type of arrangement. A Fediverse Galaxy is a collection of federated software that is provided by the same admin or collective.

[posted to the @fediverse Lemmy group]
#fediverse #FediverseGalaxies #FediDev

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[-] liaizon@social.wake.st 3 points 1 year ago

@fediverse If you have any feedback on this idea I am just now playing with it. The term was mentioned months ago by @e and it had resonated with me since then and I have been wanting to try to give it a more formal definition since then. This is an idea in progress and I welcome any feedback you may have. Is this a useful concept to work on? Should we come up with a different name?

[-] liaizon@social.wake.st 0 points 1 year ago

@fediverse Mastodon and Lemmy federating with each other

[-] iameru@leipzig.town 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@liaizon @fediverse as a newb to this (see my other post), what do they federate? Like from what I understand, Lemmy is a forum software. When I federate my Mastodon with someone's Lemmy, what do I see? Can I join in on threads on the Lemmy forum with Mastodon? and the other way around? Maybe I'm not getting the fediverse yet.
Not asking your precious time to guide me through this but that information would also be helpful in a visualisation like yours

[-] noodlejetski@masto.ai 1 points 1 year ago

@iameru you can reply to Lemmy threads with your Mastodon account and (sort of) follow communities as well.
@liaizon @fediverse

[-] fedi@masto.ai 2 points 1 year ago

@liaizon
this is a really good idea. Say #kolektiva providing a mastodon, lemmy, funkwhale, pixelfed, peertube etc. to all users. I think any communities that do this in an organised fashion would gain a lot of new users..... but it is a lot of work. Would love to see mastodon.art do this.

[-] fox@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like calling it a galaxy makes it sound like its a bigger deal than it actually is, but I like it.

[-] liaizon@social.wake.st 1 points 1 year ago

@fediverse @fediversereport I would love your thoughts on this

[-] chiefgyk3d@social.chiefgyk3d.com 1 points 4 months ago

@liaizon @fediverse see now all I can think is, “Ha! I’m my own galaxy, I’m not just a star anymore mom I’m a God damn galaxy!!!”

[-] christian@suma-ev.social 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@liaizon @fediverse

Sounds like a useful new term.

The table does not capture the fact that e.g. @stux is hosting several Mastodon instances. Should those instances hosted for others as a service be counted as part of the same galaxy?

Or would this be a Fediverse family (in analogy to Tor where relays run be the same entity are called a family).