Interesting: #Phanpy works wonderfully as a client for #snac.

Except that for some reason, in Notifications view, it shows the “New notifications” overlay when there actually aren’t any new notifications 🤔

Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

I’ve got #snac working on a Raspberry Pi Zero. And I’m using #phanpy as a client. 🎉🎉🎉

Total freedom, and presumably tons of administrative bullshit. But also no more character limits 😈

Ahaha I've got it running! Right at the end of my disposable time.

Nice!

#snac

#solar #offgridsolar #balconysolar #balkonsolar #diysolar #selfhosting #solarhosting

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https://deltalima.org/blog/custom.php?site=system-stats ☀️ Solar system 2W ☀️ Solar 7W 🔌 Load 100% 🔋 Battery [www-data@minix-n4100.dmz.nukular.netz:~]# ./system-stats --solar Refreshed: 26.7.2026, 19:08:33 Solar 1 ------------------------------ PV power : 1.6 W PV current : 0.1 A PV voltage : 14.61 V Battery voltage : 13.35 V Load power : 5.07 W Solar 2 ------------------------------ PV power : 0 W PV current : 0 A PV voltage : 0 V Battery voltage : 13.36 V Load power : 2.13 W ============================= PV power all: 1.6 W Load power all: 7.2 W Battery charge: 100 % =============================

#selfhost #solar #diysolar #solarhosting #solarpunk #fediverse #smallcomputing #offgrid

Going for #snac. Since it's packaged in Debian, the install is fairly painless.

But uh oh, there's an issue saying it can't run on a subdomain? That would explain the mysterious errors I've been getting... damn 😢

The former cluster member, now the only one serving my website, is with that power consumption now an ideal replacement. The wyse 3040 power consumption was around the same. with turbo boost enabled, the n4100 consumes up to 10W in total, and 5-6W in idle.
Running off grid from my solar system battery, every watt counts. So i am really happy to have this machine now at such a low power consumption.
I guess I will migrate the old #snac instance there, the old P II was too loud to let it run 😅

$ ls -l
total 920
-rwxr-x--- 1 grunfink src 607888 jul 25 13:42 snac
-rw-r----- 1 grunfink src 330882 jul 25 13:43 snac-2.93.tar.gz

#permacomputing #SelfHosting #moo #LambdaMOO #snac

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Two IKEA kitchen cabinets bolted together. Metal grates divide the cabinet, and on the grates are things like a network switch , a laptop, a small desktop server and a UPS.

Storage has grown to 1.7gb, memory and cpu utilization are still negligible.

This is easily the lightest weight fedi host I have run to-date, and I've run just about all of them.

I'm still hestitant to move to it full time, but it is pretty appealing.

TL;DR: I'm going to abandon this account, please follow me on my new account: gmc@snac.chasmcity.net.

So, now that I'm convinced #snac is the way to go, I'll be abandoning this account on my friendica server. I'll continue to boost my posts from snac on this account for a while, but at some point that'll stop.

If you're following me on this account, please start following me on gmc@snac.chasmcity.net (and if you don't like to see my posts twice in your timeline, unfollow this account).

Thanks!

#lispyGopherClimate #emacs #FSF CONFIRMED @bandali (note the new fediversal #snac account) will join us on the show tomorrow!

Remember it is every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas being 0UTC Wednesday, or 25 hours from this toot. (Every week since 2022.).

live - https://anonradio.net/

#RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 ( @screwtape_channel ). #peertube #lisp

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The red ink Lispy Gopher Show banner (featuring Maude and not Bandali) unix_surrealism. anonradio.net LISPPY GOPHER SHOW.

Three hours to live #discussion with #FSF #gopher @bandali on #lispyGopherClimate !
0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas)

I am not accepting to treat bandali as a stallman effigy.

We *will* talk about human #emacs (anti #ai faction).

We are promoting awareness of bandali's new personal #snac #fedi instance (thanks @grunfink ), if you could follow / boost to that avail.

Bandali publishes these, amoung things:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-june-gnu-spotlight
gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali

@screwtape_channel

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Very gopher-centric lispy gopher show banner.

@scips@mastodon.social nice! This isn't ready for release, yet, but you can surely try with #snac

It’s not Tuesday yet, but it will be soon.
And I want to thank @grunfink for creating and maintaining snac. Tomorrow I’ll talk about FediMeteo at DevConf, and it would never have come to be if it weren’t for snac and for the help the author gave me in fixing some things to optimize its use.

True Open Source, made with passion, by people who do things for the love of the things themselves.

#ThankYouTuesday #snac #FediMeteo #Fediverse

@82mhz @rl_dane @daj that's why I like solutions like #snac. No nonsense decisions, but a specific idea behind.

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.93 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/33311

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks to violette, hanchan, inz, lainsoykaf, nullenvk, e0w0e, dragondaddy, daltux, zen and anyone else I may have missed for also contributing to the improvements in this release!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

Added a new admirations entry point to the web UI, containing a timeline of liked, boosted and reacted posts. Please take note that, after installing the new version, it will start empty, and be filled with subsequent reactions (contributed by violette).

It's now possible to disable showing posts in a given set of languages.

Nested quoted posts are limited up to 3 levels.

New configuration knob: by setting keep_replies_posts to true in server.json, remote posts that a local user has replied to are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

New configuration knob: by setting keep_replied_me to true in server.json, remote replies to local posts are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

Ensure actors' public key PEM never includes anything after the end marker.

Fixed some memory leaks (contributed by inz).

Several additional keyId checks (many thanks to lainsoykaf for bringing this to my attention).

Fixed crash in the JSON parser (many thanks to nullenvk for bringing this to my attention).

Mastodon API: fixed lost custom emojis after edition (contributed by e0w0e).

Updated French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish translations (contributed by dragondaddy, daltux, zen).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

RE: https://poliversity.it/@devconf/116792507141709633

A tutti gli amici che parteciperanno alla DevConf Italia: potrete seguire le previsioni meteo di Pavia direttamente dal Fediverso e da Delta Chat, nonché da sito web o feed RSS, da FediMeteo.

Sito: https://it.fedimeteo.com/pavia
Account Fediverse: @pavia
Canale Delta Chat: https://i.delta.chat/#39D39283B059D042F8991D73E3BA5DA4B5C5143B&v=3&x=EkZVVGPtEQe7P29NGC0Cj5Dd&j=RHh2965YcHFa4mVgfzS_rjxk&s=yR1k6-A0Swj-ZBL3VR9REow4&a=qpe4x4nnk%40chatmail.bsd.cafe&n=FediMeteo+Italy&b=FediMeteo+·+Pavia

Vi ricordo inoltre che il 7 Luglio alle ore 16:25 presenterò "FediMeteo, i BSD e il Fediverso: sotto il sole, senza nuvole, liberi e connessi" - proprio su FediMeteo e sugli strumenti di comunicazione liberi e decentralizzati.

Non mancate!

#DevConf #DevConfItalia #FediMeteo #DeltaChat #snac #snac2 #Fediverso #Fediverse #OwnYourData

#runsnac #snac2 #fediverse #alternatives #opensource
CC: @VasiliWz@hachyderm.io

Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.

What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster

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snac2 sending push notifications to a user via MastoBlaster App on iPhone

Huh. I've never seen that before. In the #snac web interface, it shows up as a #WebMention.

Pity @tut isn't being developed anymore. :'(

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Screenshot of tut with the following text: Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut Full text of screenshot: tut - notifications (1/1) - rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe [H]ome │Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https: 09:50 rl_dane@polymaths.social │//github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut 09:42 r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe │ 09:35 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:25 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:22 fedops@fosstodon.org │ 09:19 fedops@fosstodon.org ⤶ │ 09:12 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:06 fedops@fosstodon.org ⤶ │ 09:05 ♺ Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchang │ 09:01 ♺ byte@awawa.club │ [N]otifications │ 09:44 netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org ⤶ │ 09:40 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ⤶ │ 09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ★ │ 09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ⤶ │ 09:13 daltux@snac.daltux.net ⤶ │ 08:54 prahou@merveilles.town ⤶ │ 08:49 daltux@snac.daltux.net ⤶ │ 08:39 daltux@snac.daltux.net │ 08:35 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ♺ │ 08:26 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ★ │ 00:52 ameredith@deacon.social ★ │ -- LIST -- Press ? or :help to learn how tut functions

What's your preferred clients for the Unix terminal (must be cross-platform, not Linux-only, for goodness, sake! 😅) and Android?

I've noticed that @tut@fosstodon.org and @pachli@mastodon.social (and other @Tusky@mastodon.social forks) don't quite like snac, and tend to act a wee bit cagey. ;)

CC: @MonaApp@mastodon.social @amd@snac.amd.im

Anyone have any other recommendations to try? https://snac.amd.im/amd/p/1781807020.988120

#snac2

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Webmention by https://social.golemwire.com/golemwire/p/1781275542.416093 notification in my snac server

snac is rather awesome software. It's lightweight, exceedingly fast and just works.

Thanks @grunfink@comam.es (and other contributors to the project).

#snac2 #fediverse

Boosting your post, just in case anyone out there knows something.

CC: @max@manmachine.me

@df I love this idea and the software. I'm a great supporter of #snac exactly for the same reason. You don't need beefy hardware to have your own Fediverse home.
Starling is a nice because it can be used without setting up a proper server - just a php installation and a domain.

I'll keep this testing instance on and continue to test it with MastoBlaster.

Coming next week: a post about the FediMeteo bot, how it works, how it has evolved, and the overall structure of jails. The following week: caching the BSD Cafe Mastodon instances on nginx.

Stay tuned on ITNotes!

#ITNotes #haproxy #nginx #FreeBSD #Mastodon #snac

Also, I think it's important to remember that #snac also allows following hashtags by those RSS feeds provided by several Fediverse implementations (like Mastodon), avoiding the need of subscribing to a relay. E.g., you can add https://mastodon.social/tags/snac to the followed hashtags field, and it will periodically poll that RSS from the big instance and add to your timeline those posts tagged with #snac.

CC: @astro@c3d2.social

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Sur Hubzilla, Streams et Forte, on propose à la personne avec qui on souhaite être en relation de nous suivre. La question posée est «Acceptes-tu de recevoir mes publications?». On demande d’abord à être suivi, avant d’éventuellement être suivi en retour.

C’est subtil, hein?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Autre détail un peu surprenant, si sur mon compte hébergé sur une instance snac je me fais bloquer par quelqu’un, je recevrai une notification m’informant que j’ai été  bloqué, et par qui. Pas sûr que ce soit une super idée.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

En gros, si depuis mon compte sur une instance respectueuse des standards, en particulier de la gestion de l’activité Block, je peux décider de bloquer un autre compte, si l’instance qui héberge ce dernier décide de ne pas en tenir compte, je ne parviendrai pas au résultat attendu.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

L’exemple dont je me suis servi est applicable à Mastodon, et certainement à la plus grande majorité des plateformes logicielles existantes, mais peut-on considérer qu’on est totalement à l’abri d’instances gérées par des personnes moins scrupuleuses? Pas sûr.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Parce qu’en réalité, lorsque mon bloqué publie quelque chose, sa publication sera toujours envoyée vers mon instance, et c’est à cette dernière qu’il appartient de ne pas la transmettre vers mon compte. De même, mes publications à moi seront toujours envoyées à l’instance de mon bloqué, et c’est à elle qu’il incombe de ne pas les lui transmettre.

Vous voyez en quoi ça peut être problématique, ou pas?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

But, you can have snac running from a subdirectory of your main domain (which, as far as I know, no other fediverse implementation does). I.e. you can have your snac root in example.com/social and then you can identify as you@example.com . So you have no unnecessary subdomain just to be you.

Which is what I do for this very domain.

CC: @mms@bsd.cafe

Addendum: I also just learned about using the setgid bit on a directory. That was used, too. Cool! https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Directory-Setuid-and-Setgid.html

FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads

How FediMeteo uses HAProxy caching, static pages, and small FreeBSD jails to keep snac quiet and serve ActivityPub traffic efficiently.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/18/fedimeteo-haproxy-and-the-art-of-not-wasting-snac-threads/

#FediMeteo #snac #snac2 #haproxy #freebsd #it #sysadmin #ITNotes

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/32773

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks to you and la_ninpre, trondd555, sergiodj, kpm, zen, pmjv and anyone else I may have missed for the improvements in this release!

My apologies for taking so long to get around to submitting a PR. I check repology.org multiple times a day, most days, but for some reason only saw snac needed attention a few hours ago! This may inspire me to rejigger MacPorts' livecheck stuff for local/sanity check/resilience/not putting all my eggs into one basket/etc.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

The #illumosCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.92

#illumosCafeservices #illumosCafeUpdates

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.92

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_inbox_collection is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because it seems to be used for harrasing people.

Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_history is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because archived history files don't reflect reality after posts are deleted or modified (they always have been an ugly kludge).

Changed default: in previous versions, posts with a scope of unlisted were shown in public pages and RSS feeds. Now, they are no longer shown. If you want to get back to previous behaviour, use a new toggle in the User Settings section (see snac(1) for more information).

New admin configuration option: if the purge_static value is set to true in server.json, each user's static directory is explored and those files there that are no longer attached to any post or referenced anywhere are deleted. See snac(8) for more information about those cases where you may not want to enable this option.

Allow serving files from subdirectories of the static/ subdirectory (contributed by la_ninpre).

Minor tweak to webfinger code to handle Hubzilla's peculiarities.

Fixed a search case where URLs to GotoSocial statuses were misidentified as accounts.

Accounts that follow you are now marked with a thumb-up emoji, because followers are adorable people.

Fixed some account export errors.

Fixed an incorrect hash in post links.

Show an account's location link in the people page, if they have one.

Mastodon API: Fixed hashtags loosing the link after editing a post, minor tweak in access token processing (contributed by trondd555).

Drop usage of PATH_MAX (contributed by sergiodj).

New Polish translation (contributed by kpm).

Updated German and Czech translations (contributed by zen and pmjv).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

• 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.
• @grunfink@comam.es is awesome. Friendly and responsive.

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

That

works

for

me.

• (I'm not gonna show it all)

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

#Snac #SnacServer #SelfHosting

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

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"X all the Y" guy: I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!! Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background: Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests "X all the Y" guy's reply: I'll take it!!! (light background)

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"X all the Y" guy: I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!! Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background: Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests "X all the Y" guy's reply: I'll take it!!! (dark background)

Also I think it would be even cooler if it was a CGI binary

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

CC: @nick@treffen.geekyschmidt.com

Because snac2 is a standalone daemon and does not natively speak FastCGI

See the snac(8) manpage for more information.

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.

#theworkshop #subversivepics #snac

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HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUBVERSIVE.PICS BUT DONT SPEAK COMPUTER?! metal vaccine angel says sweet

#mastoblaster #snac #fediverse

new achievements just dropped

#snac

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computerspeak enthusiast

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troublemaker

At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.

#snac ... Snac's Not A Crappie.

Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

I come out to see that the marvelous @lisamelton@mastodon.social gave it a boost! Thank you Lisa!

Then I went to check on my VPS and it is showing:

load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.05

New #snac instance survived a Lisa boost. Yay! (Lisa Melton Boost Certified)

#fediverse