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.ml
    16•11 months 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.

      • @nachtigall@feddit.de
        8•11 months 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.de
            6•11 months 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)

            • pfogl
              3•11 months ago

              @nachtigall @tux0r Mastodon has quite a bit of functionality that makes life easier in regards to modding. I don’t know how Lemmy performs there.

              • Kierunkowy74
                3•11 months ago

                On /kbin you can flag your content as 18+/NSFW when adding it. You can also flag your magazine (equivalent of Lemmy community) the same way, when creating it.

    • rhabarbaOP
      11•11 months ago

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

      • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
        4•11 months 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 :)