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Why is it so annoyingly hard to set up a Fediverse node? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s “annoyingly hard” because you’re not using modern tooling.

Calling Docker "modern" is a stretch, as it's not much more than glorified Solaris Zones, but please enlighten me: Which feature of a federated web application requires modern tooling?

Since you’re familiar with BSD, it’s similar to jails

OpenBSD does not have jails.

except with better isolation

How so?

fewer security holes/issues

Actually, not using Docker prevents a number of security holes/issues.

and the software you want to run is preinstalled.

If you grab an image with it. You could as well just grab a tar archive with it... with less side effects.

Docker containers are essentially mmutable which makes upgrades easy

And security patches impossible.