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
I feel like calling it a galaxy makes it sound like its a bigger deal than it actually is, but I like it.
@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 @fediverse @e Like the idea very much!
On a side note: What I could need is an actual easy to understand “what is this even”. I’m probably not the target audience but I don’t understand the difference between #Mastodon and #calckey for example. and what most of these other tools do. But I’m also somewhat new to social media so maybe it takes time.@fediverse Mastodon and Lemmy federating with each other
@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 yoursdeleted by creator
@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?@iameru @bloodaxe @fediverse its both a mastodon thread and a lemmy thread cause we are all in the same fediverse! I started this lemmy thread from mastodon by tagging the lemmy group in the origonal post.
@iameru you can reply to Lemmy threads with your Mastodon account and (sort of) follow communities as well.
@liaizon @fediverse
And kbin too please.
@wason Yes very much. I just started with one graphic, but I want to make a whole bunch to easily visualize different types of federation
@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.Do these galaxies allow you to have one account shared across the various services?
no sadly the fediverse doesn’t really work like that. tho there has been talk for a long time about attempting to do something in this direction
@liaizon @fediverse can we join? Https://www.ourselves.space
@liaizon @fediverse I think k Jerry runs a WriteFreely instance too. I was but wasn’t thrilled with it. Although not strictly Fedi, need Matrix on here too.
@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!!!”
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).
@christian @fediverse @stux I am not sure what exactly you are questioning? just that some admins have more then one mastodon instance?
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.
