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

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 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

#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

Ok, I'm testing something cool.

A blend of #snac, #Mastodon, #honk, #GoToSocial...and more.

This is running on a Raspberry PI Zero W, powered by NetBSD. The same that is powering my own smart thermostat. And it's quick.

I'll use this account and try to "stress" it.

Own your data. Always own your data!

#littleFedi #OwnYourData #Fediverse #NetBSD #RunBSD

@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

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

CC: @losttourist@social.chatty.monster