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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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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] vrojak@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, bring in the shitposting and porn subs and Lemmy will flourish.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will probably be defederated though.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year 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)

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You can only create a community on the server that you're on, but you could just make another account and then appoint your account on the foreign server as mod :)

[–] wethegreenpeople@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not accurate though is it? Community creation can be enabled/disabled from the owner of the server, but there are some servers that allow it. For example: I'm on sopuli, which is not my server, and I'm able to create new communities.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

sorry my explanation was bad. I meant you can create a sub on the server that you're on. Afaik only beehaw disallows this.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Oh! Today I learned... thank you!

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm well if anyone gets around to it before I do, make one called shittyasklemmy. I'll even help moderate it.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

just make one on your server (lemmy.ml), it's literally only a few clicks. "Create Community" in the very top :)