It's been four months since I brought up We're Dreaming using #snac and I'm really liking how well the instance has been running. Maintenance has been easy. I started on 2.90-dev and have gone through three upgrades which were all boring (aka easy).

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

Hi. Sorry, I didn't try myself nor have read about any successful nor failed stories about migrating from pixelfed to #snac.

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

CC: @max@manmachine.me

I've only used #snac for about half a year, and my instance takes up ~250MB of disk space and ~25MB of memory. :)

I wish more modern software was like #snac2 (:

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

Hey Fedi :3

It is my 3rd month of running #snac #snac2 instance. I wanted to share a few words about how awesome this software is.

Few points that make snac icredibly good for my usecase are:

• No database needed - means easy migration for me


• No javascript - not a big fan of JS


• No cookies - so users are not tracked


• It only stores locally data about users on the local instance it doesnt download stuff from instances it federates with


• Extremely low resource usage

Basically you compile snac you get a executable program that you can run as a deamon, you just need to point it to data directory in which all data is stored, it puts out HTTP on which web ui is visible, you can proxy it and that's all.

After 3 month of posting (2 active users and 3 semi active users) my data dir is ~500MB and memory usage is ~200MB
it means i can keep running it on my infrastructure without even thinking too much about load

@grunfink@comam.es thanks for such a awesome piece of software 🩷🩷🩷

This is valuable, thanks for sharing.

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

If what 'split domains' mean is "running #snac in subdomain.example.com but identify as accounts from example.com" then no, it's not supported.

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

we're dreaming has been upgraded to snac v2.92. Backing up the instance before the upgrade took longer than the upgrade itself. #snac #snac2 #snacadmin #fediverse

I've just published version 2.92 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

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

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

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

fwiw I've been using #snac with mastodon clients for a while now and it does the job.

unfortunately, afaik you don't get push notifs via the masto api, so you either have to poll, or get them via ntfy.sh/telegram/email

@snackr@nano.uninformation.org
Yes, It is save and recommended to use your own.
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html
#snac

I've never used #qutebrowser, but I heard it works OK with snac. It's the first time I hear about the annoying password issue.

Given #snac's low bar requirements, I think any modern web browser is fine. I use Firefox, but totally agree on the heavy side (I have an unresolved love+hate relation with Firefox). I don't recommend any Chrome-based solution, because Google (though snac works great there).

I wish a small web browser (even a text-mode one!) with support for summary / details existed. In fact, if I ever develop another web app (a case that is probably not going to happen), I would not rely on this functionality.

Dillo is great. If it wasn't for the lack of support for summary and details tags (which #snac relies very much on), I would recommend it as the best web browser for a snac experience.

CC: @gumnos@bsd.cafe