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

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 🤔

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 😈

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

#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 % =============================

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

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!

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.

#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.

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

CC: @losttourist@social.chatty.monster

#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