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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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[–] gepfahrpfogl@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de 0 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

Mastodon wants Docker.

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

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

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.

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

oh I see

[–] kusuriya@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] kusuriya@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year 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 0 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thank you.