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

  • wakest ⁂@social.wake.stOP
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    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?

  • fox@vlemmy.net
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    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.

  • fedi :fediverse:@masto.ai
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    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.

  • Christian Pietsch 🍑@suma-ev.social
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    6 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).