#snac — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted @jorijn's post about toot.community closing, and it's a refrain I've seen more than once. Even though I'm on a "big" instance for the moment, it's one of the things that drove me to self-host initially, #honk then #snac and maybe someday #littleFedi. Moderation is easy when you only have to moderate yourself. Tiny instances don't attract much attention and you can still interact with the rest of the planet. It's a good tradeoff.

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

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

@chadmccullough

Do you refer to #bsdcafe ?
Do I need to call for you the official #BaristaForever ?

Anyway for individual use you might look at:

#snac: codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
#honk: humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk (it seems unavailable)
#littlefedi: littlefedi.org

For what I know many people run this little server on little board, from home using #IPv6 with a custom domain. Don't ask for more... 🙏

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

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 !

#snac2 #snac #ThankYouTuesday #Efficiency #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac

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