schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Search results for tag #snac

[?]Oliver ⚡ » 🌐
@oliver@microhive.me

I've just updated my instance to stable version 2.95 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
Loads of bug fixes and stuff I don’t understand, but which are surely important and useful.
Huge thanks to @grunfink@comam.es and all contributers!! 🎉


    [?]lorenzo » 🌐
    @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

    updated to latest 2.95

    Thanks as always Mr. @grunfink@comam.es


      [?]FediMeteo » 🌐
      @admin@fedimeteo.com

      Update: All the FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to snac 2.95


        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
        @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

        The instance has been upgraded to 2.95

          [?]BSD Cafe Announcements » 🌐
          @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          The instance has been upgraded to 2.95

            [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
            @grunfink@comam.es

            I've just published version 2.95 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

            Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

            Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

            Added some fixes to media proxy code.

            Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

            Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

            Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

            Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

            Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

            Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

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

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


              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
              @grunfink@comam.es

              Hi everyone. Yesterday, many instances had a failure in the notifications area: accessing it was impossible. I have not much information about what the problem is, but it seems it's related to a specially crafted post that makes snac hang. If this is happening to you, and you have access to snac's disk storage, you can delete manually the files inside the notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).

              Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.

              Sorry for the inconvenience.

                [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                Found the issue with freezing on notifications as this time there were only 3 when it happened. One of them is a spam message containing 100's of users on various servers coming from an actors url https://cum.salon/users/pernia
                So I'm hoping that blocking that will help in future ?

                  [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                  @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                  This issue is now resolved and thank you for your pings, pongs and dings 🤪

                  Can some kind person please reply to this test post so I can see if my notifications issue is totally resolved? ❤️

                    [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                    Right I must have had a bad or corrupted notification causing my issue as just deleted all of todays notication files and I can get in notifications again. Had to run the following:

                    find /home/snac/data/user/justine/notify -type f -newermt "2026-09-01" -delete

                    Hopefully I can click on the new notifications that come in now ?


                      [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                      Hmm great! I can't read any of my notifications on my instance as of today. I can read any other page except notifications. It show new notifications but on clicking just locks up and I eventually get a gateway timeout.
                      Tried rebuilding with make clean but nothing. Also noticed it is spawning multiple snac processes for some reason that arfe at 405% cpu useage.
                      Something must have changed in the code recently?
                      I've made a issue on their codeberg as I cannot read replies.

                        [?]p » 🌐
                        @p@hj.9fs.net

                        The official achivements list (so far).

                        https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

                        @grunfink@comam.es

                        get snacpilled achievement

                        Alt...get snacpilled achievement

                          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          RE: rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@ste

                          Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                          [?]Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐
                          @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

                          Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

                          #littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

                          Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

                          Alt...Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

                              [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                              @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              @grunfink @nina_kali_nina FediMeteo does, thanks to !

                                [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                Tempted to have a play with @stefano@bsd.cafe and see how it compares to . Obviously this is only for research as it couldn't possibly be fomo. 😂
                                Anybody compared the two? If so what's your verdict?

                                https://littlefedi.org/index.html

                                  [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                  Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?
                                  Even more: , an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.

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

                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                    is the powerful war rig in the army against the axis of biased social networks; is the little buffoon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.


                                      [?]AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺 » 🌐
                                      @andi@snac.sonnenmulde.at

                                      Self hosting is the way to prevent future problems like this. Just don't choose Mastodon because it is rather heavy on resources.

                                      Have a look at , or or even - all perfectly hostable even from Raspberry Pis. And if you are only interested in hosting one to a handful accounts you won't miss anything from Mastodon. Although GotoSocial can also hosts 1000s of users (the other two mentioned, less so)

                                        [?]ltning » 🌐
                                        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                        @gourd My alter ego @ltning runs on a 486. Yes, the actual #snac server instance. And also X11. :) "Fast" or "snappy" are not applicable adjectives, though.

                                          [?]pat [he/him] » 🌐
                                          @pat@patpatpat.xyz

                                          Love

                                          I kept fat-thumbing when trying to open content warning'd/hidden posts on me phone...but I realised I can just edit the style.css to add a bigger margin. I should probably check out some of the proper stylesheets people have made (but there is something very rad about the default theme)

                                            [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                            @slothrop@chaos.social

                                            @the_coffee_lover yes! I
                                            set up a instance just a few weeks ago.

                                            It’s been purring along nicely, without ever giving me any trouble.

                                              gyptazy boosted

                                              [?]gyptazy » 🌐
                                              @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

                                              Running a small or single user instance in the ? Get connected to other instances by a relay!

                                              I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports ! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

                                              With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on , , / , and many other things!

                                              More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com


                                                [?]AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺 » 🌐
                                                @andi@snac.sonnenmulde.at

                                                Since you also run a lot of - what was your decision to create one more lightweight server implementation? Nothing wrong with that but I'd like to know where you see strengths, differences... whatever comes to your mind comparing the two. Thanks!

                                                CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one and one .

                                                  Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

                                                  This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

                                                  Thanks, @grunfink !

                                                    Misty boosted

                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                    THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

                                                    Funhole Content Review
FEDIVERSE

I HAVE A DREAM

'you need to enable javascript to run this this app.'

How to make it big? You don't

@mmtmm pls sponsor me

How to get more boosts? Cats.

so many rabbits

LOOPY CONSPIRACY - Who is behind the manufactured fame of a tiktok clone nobody asked for?

THE C BANSHEE: What is snac and should you be worried?

FEDIVERSE MENACE: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

hackers.town: Is nowhere safe?

ONE FREE ANTI-SLOP KITTO

THE LIST: 50.000 mastodon addresses to avoid if you don't like illegal content.

                                                    Alt...Funhole Content Review FEDIVERSE I HAVE A DREAM 'you need to enable javascript to run this this app.' How to make it big? You don't @mmtmm pls sponsor me How to get more boosts? Cats. so many rabbits LOOPY CONSPIRACY - Who is behind the manufactured fame of a tiktok clone nobody asked for? THE C BANSHEE: What is snac and should you be worried? FEDIVERSE MENACE: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? hackers.town: Is nowhere safe? ONE FREE ANTI-SLOP KITTO THE LIST: 50.000 mastodon addresses to avoid if you don't like illegal content.

                                                      [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                      @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                      Somehow my main instance, which is a large Mastodon server operated by professionals, is significantly slower than my little single-user instance running on the Raspi Zero in my shelf.

                                                        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                                        You're right; the /api/v1/mutes entrypoint (and others) needs authentication and should return 401 if none is provided, but in 's case it's just a stub that returns an empty array, so it's irrelevant what HTTP code it returns.

                                                        I may change it to return the correct code eventually, but I don't consider it a priority.

                                                          [?]BSD Cafe Announcements » 🌐
                                                          @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                          The instance has been updated to 2.94

                                                            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                            @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

                                                            The instance has been updated to 2.94

                                                              [?]FediMeteo » 🌐
                                                              @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                                              Update: all the FediMeteo instances have been updated to 2.94

                                                              I'll add the requested cities ASAP.


                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                I've just published version 2.94 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes (mostly bug fixes):

                                                                The author of a replied post is no longer added to the CC: line, as it does not have much sense.

                                                                Fixed mentions for users with hyphens in their identifiers.

                                                                Unlisted replies to unknown posts were being skipped from the timeline, so don't do that.

                                                                If an actor marked as broken gets a post boosted (proving that is [back] functioning), it's unmarked as such.

                                                                Don't try (and fail) to parse non-UTC dates in posts (I'll provide a real fix eventually).

                                                                Fixed a redirection loop in the /users alias.

                                                                Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made changing the sensitive content string impossible, avatars and headers can be deleted (contributed by bm90).

                                                                Updated Czech and Italian translations (contributed by pmjv and fidiben).

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

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


                                                                  [?]Bitslingers-R-Us » 🌐
                                                                  @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

                                                                  @jspath55 @stefano Nice! Perhaps I’ll do something similar with my single core RISC-V email server. A gig of RAM is extreme overkill for an email server.

                                                                  Curious - what’re the advantages and disadvantages of LittleFedi compared with, say, #snac?

                                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                    Hi. In , you can follow a specific tag of a specific Mastodon instance using its direct URL, like e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/snac2

                                                                    CC: @jorijn@jorijn.com

                                                                      [?]Root Moose » 🌐
                                                                      @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                      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?

                                                                        [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                                        @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                                        Interesting: works wonderfully as a client for .

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

                                                                          [?]amilatled » 🌐
                                                                          @amilatled@snac.la10cy.net

                                                                          Hello again from !
                                                                          After being offline for about two months, this snac instance is back on-line again! The old Pentium II System was just a bit loud in my living room and power consumption was also respectable.
                                                                          This snac instance now runs on a fully off-grid solar powered mini pc with an Intel N4100 CPU.
                                                                          With TurboBoost disabled, it consumes only 1,5-2,5W in idle, and max 6-7W under heavy load.
                                                                          Beside this snac instance, the Mini PC also hosts (as id did in a cluster before) my personal website https://deltalima.org
                                                                          There you can also see the live stats of the MiniPC itself and the solar system. (Solar 2 is dedicated for the mini pc)
                                                                          https://deltalima.org/blog/custom.php?site=system-stats


                                                                            [?]amilatled » 🌐
                                                                            @amilatled@snac.la10cy.net

                                                                            its 7pm here, sun is since 3 hours around the corner, it's cloudy and kinda dark. I only have 110Wp on solar panels installed on my balcony, and this still is enough, to compensate the power draw of the mini pc , my website and this instance is hosted on :D (Solar 2 is dedicated for the mini pc, Solar 1 and 2 are connected to the same battery)


                                                                            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 %  =============================

                                                                            Alt...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 Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                              Amazingly, the amd64 binary (stripped) and its source code still fits in a 1.2 MB floppy disk 🖬

                                                                              $ 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

                                                                                [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                So far so good as has survived and my website. Git upgraded but cgit has a wee issue that it won't display the tree files contents but will if you click plain. Probably some highlighter issue ??

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