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?

      • iameru@leipzig.town
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        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

        • Bloodaxe@fosstodon.org
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          1 year ago

          @iameru @liaizon @fediverse I’m replying to you right now using Mastodon 😃 I can also view the thread of the OP in Mastodon, if I have the fediverse-link to the post. So it shares posts, boosts, upvotes etc across services, regardless of software. As long as they all speak ActivityPub, we should all be able to do basic interactions.

          For instance, I’m unable to downvote via Mastodon, but I can always upvote (on Masto it’s called a favourite) and “boost” a post.

          • iameru@leipzig.town
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            1 year ago

            @bloodaxe @liaizon @fediverse ah thanks. So basic content is shared or made sharable, like favorites getting read by Lemmy as upvotes.
            Btw, I use Mastodon aswell and isn’t this a Mastodon thread? Or is this Lemmy and it’s already so integrated I don’t even recognize it? Are there hints to which service im talking to?

  • 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.

  • Ninguém
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    1 year ago

    I would think of a galaxy as being some kind of “zone” on the fediverse. Though instances can interact with each other, not every instance interacts with every other one.

    Think of a niche subject (a group of instances, or a goup of managers, with interests only related to a particular religion, or political view, or collectors…), their instances might not interoperate with more generic ones and only interoperate between themselves.

    Usenet had the notion of an island for groups of servers disconnected from the rest of the “world”.

    That’s what I would call a galaxy.

    I would find another term for your notion, like a “group”, or “local group”. There has to be a better term.