Everyone (and their mother) have been trying to convince me that I should use one of my less loaded servers to be a Fediverse node. However, all Fediverse software packages I checked only support being installed on complicated systemd + Docker machines. My servers don’t have either of those, because neither systemd nor Docker even exist on OpenBSD and illumos.

I know that it would be possible to manually install (e.g.) Lemmy, assuming that I won’t ever need official support, but I wonder why the world outside a limited subset of the Linux ecosystem is - at most - an afterthought for Fediverse developers.

How can I help to change that?

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Ugh, I wanted to make a few sublemmys but if it’s that much work, forget it. One thing that’s lacking around here are the shitposting subreddit equivalents. r/Copypasta, r/shittyaskreddit, r/okbuddyretard, that kind of thing.

    • rhabarba@feddit.deOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      As far as I understand, you can make a new community (“sublemmy”) on any server, it will be federated.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You can only create a community on the server that you’re on, but you could just make another account and then appoint your account on the foreign server as mod :)

        • wethegreenpeople@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          2 years ago

          That’s not accurate though is it? Community creation can be enabled/disabled from the owner of the server, but there are some servers that allow it. For example: I’m on sopuli, which is not my server, and I’m able to create new communities.

          • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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            2 years ago

            sorry my explanation was bad. I meant you can create a sub on the server that you’re on. Afaik only beehaw disallows this.

    • vrojak@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Exactly, bring in the shitposting and porn subs and Lemmy will flourish.

      • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Porn is kinda difficult. There are probably few people who want to moderate and more importantly be liable for pornographic content hosted on their servers. Many Hoster also explicitly forbid adult content.

        Not impossible but someone would have to do it ^^

        I could also totally see something like naughtyverse.xxx as domain name.

          • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Right. Lemmy would need at least an option for admins to not show content from certain instances in the All feed. And overall more sophisticated tools for moderating remote content (e.g. side wide mods that aren’t as powerful as admins but still can remove federated posts)