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Why is it so annoyingly hard to set up a Fediverse node? (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] gepfahrpfogl@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@tux0r Mastodon is well-documented and I was able to set a node up in an hour or so, don't know about OpenBSD tho

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mastodon wants Docker.

[–] kusuriya@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it likes it but not needs it, an OpenBSD dev has your back https://github.com/qbit/mastodon_openbsd

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last updated in 2018... probably unsupported for current versions?

[–] kusuriya@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no it works for the current version but you need to check your playbook vars to just get the new tarballs. If you want to see it in action PHessler runs a node at bsd.network that runs on OpenBSD in vmm on OpenBSD.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Good to know, thank you.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tux0r@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

From that site:

Make sure curl, wget, gnupg, apt-transport-https, lsb-release and ca-certificates is installed first

lsb-release does not exist outside Linux.

[–] gepfahrpfogl@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tux0r@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

From that site:

Make sure curl, wget, gnupg, apt-transport-https, lsb-release and ca-certificates is installed first

lsb-release does not exist outside Linux.