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?
Not sure about other companies, but at the few I’ve been developing for lately it was just way easier to setup a nice pipeline and developer environment with standard Linux systems + docker, so path of least resistance.
If you could troubleshoot your way through and write up a guide I’m sure any of the projects would take a PR. My guess is just a lack of devs experienced in the area or that they have limited time to even investigate the possibility.