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?

  • rhabarba@feddit.deOP
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    1 year ago

    I agree with you and I really don’t want to sound like “finally use a decent system, unworthy Linux user”. However, this sword has two edges: I don’t necessarily want to be fobbed off with “Install Linux, you backward fool” either.

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      1 year ago

      That’s fair. Id be interested to see a bsd port personally. You probably can do it without docker. But whether all the parts are ported is another question (ie pictrs). You may be able to compile them from source though. I’ve never used BSD for web apps, mostly just firewalls, storage and routing.

      I did run FreeBSD as a desktop for a while some years back.