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Stefano Marinelli
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I want to publicly thank @dch
The FreeBSD port of littleFedi was already ready at release time, and it’s really well done.

One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux.

The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD.

I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years.

#ThankYou #RunBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #OwnYourData #Fediverse #littleFedi

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marius
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@stefano@bsd.cafe I had a look and saw that you don't use any libraries for the ActivityPub logic. As someone that works on such a library for Go, may I ask why? :goose_hacker:

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Stefano Marinelli
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@mariusor @dch @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it littleFedi was originally built with its own federation protocol, not ActivityPub. ActivityPub was implemented later, simply by adapting its previous federation mechanism, which was then partially brought back in littleMesh. No specific reasons against the existing libraries.

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Paolo Redaelli
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@stefano@bsd.cafe
The main implementation of the #fediverse should run smoothly on any #POSIX OS. #FreeBSD , #NetBSD and #OpenBSD are literally the "definition" of POSIX. Why they should not run on them? I'm genuinely puzzled! Can anyone enlighten me, please?
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Stefano Marinelli
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@paoloredaelli @dch @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it because modern software stack is just a mess and full of Linuxisms that it can easily become impossible to compile outside Linux. Mastodon itself, a software I like, is becoming increasingly difficult to build on some specific platforms like illumos or OpenBSD.

I know, it sounds strange. But the world doesn't care about Posix anymore. "Linux" is the keyword. Not Posix.

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Paolo Redaelli
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That's strange, "building" a program written in interpreted languages such as #Javascript and #Ruby that are usually very portable. I guessed tgat the problem is #Nodejs, but it seems I'm wrong.
I'm becoming old 😭😱
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Pete Orrall
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@stefano @dch @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it Developing and testing on the BSDs first isn't a peculiarity. It's awesome.

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matthew green
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@stefano@bsd.cafe @dch @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it anyone tried on big-endian yet? i might wanna run on that. thanks!