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Why is it so annoyingly hard to set up a Fediverse node? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by tux0r@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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?

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[–] tedvdb@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it was real easy setting up a node, because of docker. Docker+docker-compose were the only requirements to get it running. Docker (or the alternatives are available for a lot of systems, so supporting that makes sure it can run on a lot of machines.

For the remainder of systems, if the administrator decides to go for a less common install, I get that the developers aren't able to support that. There's just too much diversity in that kind of systems.