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What is a Fediverse Galaxy? (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 1 year ago by liaizon@social.wake.st to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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#fediverse #FediverseGalaxies #FediDev

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[–] christian@suma-ev.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@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 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@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 1 points 6 months ago

@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