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 collect
from liaizon@social.wake.st to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 18 Jun 2023 16:06
https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/110566074350880589

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

a chart of federated services that are run by the same admins or collectives that could be described as Fediverse Galaxies

#fedidev #fediverse #fediversegalaxies

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christian@suma-ev.social on 10 May 2024 10:49 next collapse

@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).

liaizon@social.wake.st on 10 May 2024 12:02 collapse

@christian @fediverse @stux I am not sure what exactly you are questioning? just that some admins have more then one mastodon instance?

christian@suma-ev.social on 10 May 2024 17:35 collapse

@liaizon

I'm not questioning anything. I'm just wondering if "galaxy" is the same thing in the Fediverse as "relay family" is in the Tor world.

@fediverse @stux

chiefgyk3d@social.chiefgyk3d.com on 10 May 2024 10:52 collapse

@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!!!”