Mastodawn

After three months and 1.6k posts later on snac, I'm super happy. Main things that I like about running snac for my Fediverse presence:

Light on resources. I can run this on a potato if I wanted and it would run great (I'm not, but I could.)
Backups are easy. Tar up the directory. Done.
Migrations are easy. Install nginx, build snac, untar backup. Done.
Quirky web interface. It takes a little to get used to it, but it is very functional and it's got character. I thought I would use Phanpy with it more, but I'm not. I enjoy the snac web interface.
Works (mostly) with Mastodon clients.
No crazy caching of photos, avatars and other media. This is a really big deal because my disk usage is so much lower than when I ran Mastodon.
No database. NO DATABASE. So good.
Fast. snac is really fast doing everything. It's nice.
@[email protected] is awesome. Friendly and responsive.

#fediverse #snac #snac2 #snacadmin #mastodon #phanpysocial #selfhost #selfhosted

snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

Codeberg.org

Golemwire 11h ago

OK, so I'm checking out the features of Snac.

Looks like it has basic Markdown -> HTML converting. Neat.

That

works

for

me.

It also allows a subset of straight HTML.

(I'm not gonna show it all)

It converts some text like 🙂into emoji, which I don't like, though. Leave my #emoticons alone ;)

And of course, no post or poll length limit :)

#Snac #SnacServer #SelfHosting

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Kevin W. Herron 1d ago

My journey with #snac so far--I very much like being able to customize the look via CSS. Also like the small footprint of the application. I had a problem with not being able to click links within posts--discovered that I made an error in the CSS--that problem is now solved.

Jori 1d ago

I've been testing this GoToSocial instance for a week now, and I love it. Federation works a hundred times better here than it does on Sharkey. The only thing that bothers me a bit unfortunately is that it's a little too minimalistic and doesn't provide a web client. I do miss that a bit and it can be super simple for all I care. Snac2 does that for example and it’s pretty much the only feature I miss a bit. This forces clients to be well-built and not hit the rate limit every time. Unfortunately, some clients do that when it comes to custom emojis, because a lot of clients just want to load all the emojis at once. Aside from that I’m very happy with gts. #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #webclient #client #federation #sharkey

Michel

2d ago

#moving my fediverse home to my domain using #snac. If I disappear from your timeline, maybe we got some errors, so feel free to find me at @[email protected]

Thanks @stefano , for the excellent community that you created and I will still be around :)

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The Real Grunfink 5d ago

Also I think it would be even cooler if it was a CGI binary
#snac is not a native CGI program, but it supports FastCGI. With a bit of work, it can be set up to behave as pure CGI. More information:

https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html

CC: @[email protected]

How to run your own social network (with Snac)

Short tutorial on how to join the Fediverse for cheap.

Giacomo Tesio

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The Real Grunfink 5d ago

Because snac2 is a standalone daemon and does not natively speak FastCGI
This is incorrect; #snac does speak FastCGI natively. You can set it up on OpenBSD without the need of relayd.

See the snac(8) manpage for more information.

R.L. Dane

🍵

6d ago

I sincerely love you weirdos. <3

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #snac #snac2 #honk #meme #AVIF

Edit: added transparency to image. Scratch that, GtS seems to not like transparency in AVIF, so I restored the original and uploaded a black background variant as well

der ballreiter 6d ago

Und mal wieder umgezogen! 😀 ballreiter läuft nun auf #GoToSocial, da #snac doch ein wenig zu minimalistisch war (gemischte Timeline mit Follows und Hashtag ist ein Muss für mich). Noch immer bezweifle ich, dass #fussball #fußball je ein großes Thema im #fediverse sein wird, aber man weiß ja nie…

Tomáš May 5

Great news, you can now post a picture to https://subversive.pics interactively from your favorite internet browser!

You can achieve this by making a picture post inside the fediverse and tagging @subversive_pics (this works with snac, lemmy, mastodon, but not all of its forks, your mileage may vary)

If your picture makes it past the horp censors, your picture will appear on the subversive.pics website and the rss feed!

Incredible.

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if you post something that you think should've passed the vibe and it doesn't get through within a reasonable time period, let me know. So i can update this list...

what it definitely works with:
- snac
- lemmy
- (some) mastodon
- akkoma
- gotosocial
- misskey (some?)

what it doesn't work with :
- hometown
- glitch

#theworkshop #subversivepics #snac