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?

  • zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.org
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    1 year ago

    haha PKGBUILD go brrrrr Install everything native, use system package manager, life’s good. Surely openbsd has something similar, scanning AUR may be useful to you to filch PKGBUILDs.

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      1 year ago

      BSD isn’t Linux though, a lot of these packages are entire systems that need many packages and are only supported in one main configuration. Otherwise instead of making social networking software you’re catering to a hundred different environments. There’s no real reason to run BSD for this stuff besides being a diehard tinkerer.

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          1 year ago

          It’s more than that, open source is by default a thankless job to begin with. Even if everything goes perfect now you’re the unpaid maintainer of a program everyone uses and you have to beg for donations or sponsorship. So with those limited resources what would you rather do, chase down a bug that only happens on big-endian PowerPC Unix to satisfy one noisy user, or release an image/container that, if someone can run at all, contains your entire app in isolation so you can focus on features that most people are asking for?