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?

  • grant 🍞
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    311 months ago

    Docker is used by a ton of projects and makes installation very easy in most cases

    I’d highly recommend moving to a different distro that has docker

    • rhabarbaOP
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      211 months ago

      There are no OpenBSD “distros” with Docker.