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]
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  • Laurens Hof@calckey.social
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    1 year ago

    @liaizon@social.wake.st @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediversereport@mastodon.social the more I think about it, the more important and relevant this feels, especially regarding the entire discussion about meta and federation.

    Meta joining means that admins cannot be just system administrators anymore, but will have to make policy choices that are contested, and publically communicate them. Saying that transphobia is banned is a relatively easy policy as all sensible people agree, but either choice regarding meta will come with pushback from current users.

    I think this is a healthy move for fedi. It also means that once servers start to define an identity (‘we’re privacy focused!’, or ‘we contact with everyone, including meta, nostr, bsky, etc’), it also makes sense to establish this as a brand. And once you’ve established a brand and identity, it makes perfect sense to export that to the other software.

    And thats the point where you’re galaxies come in. Not 100% sold yet on the name, but it gets the point across well.

    I think most galaxies you’ve identified so far seem like they would not defederate from meta instantly, which creates significant space for other admins who do want to defederate to offer galaxy services that all defederate.