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

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

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      1 year 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 :)

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        1 year 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.

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          1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        Hmm well if anyone gets around to it before I do, make one called shittyasklemmy. I’ll even help moderate it.