ploumMar 20, 2025

Snac2 is a simple database-less/javascript-free alternative to Mastodon:

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

It looks very nice to run your own #fediverse server

There are some screenshots here:
https://codeberg.org/voron/snac-style

Is anybody using it?

#snarc2

snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

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Show threadltning
@ploum It runs on ridiculously low-end hardware, too. One of my #snac2 instances runs on a 486. :D
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Mar 22, 2025 at 9:29amWeb
Show threadgyptazyMar 22, 2025

Right, it even runs without any issues on slow #rv64 hardware like my #visionfive2 board.

If anyone is looking for compiled bins of snac for #RISCV
- https://cdn.gyptazy.com/files/os/debian/snac/
- https://cdn.gyptazy.com/files/os/freebsd/snac/

@ltning @ploum

Index of /files/os/debian/snac/

Show threadTim ChaseMar 22, 2025
@ltning @gyptazy
This delights me in irrational ways. Especially compared to the "you want to run Mastodon? It wants 4+GB of RAM, a gazillion different processes, docker containers, and scads of disk-space", #snac2 is refreshingly svelte
Show threadgyptazyMar 22, 2025

Not only a million of different processes but also (hopefully maintained) libraries and dependencies. snac simply requires ssl and curl - ezyyyy

@gumnos @ltning

Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺Mar 23, 2025
@gumnos @ltning @gyptazy That is why I run Akkoma. But snac is awesome software.