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.deOPEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

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

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

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

      • PeterPoopshitEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

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

      • wethegreenpeople@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        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.