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?
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.