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.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
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      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 :)