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 😅

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.

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.

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

https://toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bhh5f2iT #archive - don't forget to follow bandali !

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.

One Small Step into Geminispace

When I first announced it, several people asked if I had any plans to make a #GeminiProtocol capsule. I wasn't really considering it at the time since I felt like I was accomplishing all I wanted to do with Gopher, but now I've decided I want to give it a shot. I installed Solderpunk's Molly Brown server (which I chose because it was the only one in Debian's repo) and, after much struggle with cert permissions, got it up and running.

For content, I went with the same thing as with Gopher: a gemlog powered by a snac-to-Gemini exporter. snac uses Markdown for formatting, which is of course very similar to Gemtext. I went back and edited my earlier blog posts to make them more Gemtext-like, which mostly meant adding header lines. The only real complication was inline links: I would need to strip them out of the Markdown source. Since I'm doing this all with shell scripts (as opposed to something like Python that'd probably work better), an actual Markdown parser wasn't really an option, so I decided to do it with a regex. The thing is, I'm not very good at writing regexes. After many, many fruitless searches trying to find an existing solution I came across a bash script that did what I wanted. The script itself was obvious vibe-coded filth, but it did contain a sed -E command that did exactly what I needed.

The exporter is a comically-inept hackjob and has a backslash-itis problem (which I imagine is coming from the JSON parser I'm using) but it does, somehow, work. Some day I'll see about redoing the whole thing in Python, but for now it's good enough.

Take a look if you're interested: gemini://gemini.n8fq.org

#blog

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

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

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

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

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