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

  • fox@vlemmy.net
    3·
    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.

  • wakest ⁂@social.wake.stOP
    3·
    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
      1·
      1 year ago

      @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.

      • iameru@leipzig.town
        1·
        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