The Real Grunfink

Playing with #snac. Pretty awesome: tar cvzf backup.tar.gz <installdir> to backup. Copy to a different machine tar xvzf backup.tar.gz. Neat.

nothing needs to be add to @gyptazy 's words! thank you

@gyptazy @stefano @grunfink

@gyptazy @stefano @grunfink good words gyptazy, wholesomely agree, to everything-

Thanks for providing this service and also this information. At this point, we can only say - thank you very much for your time, efforts and money you put into this service @stefano. At this point I also want to bring up the great work of @grunfink for his incredible work in the #snac / #snac2 project. Snac became the perfect solution for single user instances but also project related instances in the fediverse. Kudos, to both of you and thank you both very much! You both are doing a great job!

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

Thank you (and to others such as nowster, hb9hnt and dheadshot) for the continued improvements to snac!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.68 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27332

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running (two out of three completed successfully, which is a good sign, here's hoping the last one has no issues as well).

As usual, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Ooh, I do like that #snac gives me a "delete" button for everyone *else's* toots! It hardly seems fair, but given I have impeccable taste it's probably correct to make me The Global Decider. Nice job 👍

@sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net @grunfink@comam.es

Awesome, thank you both!

I use snac2 with tut command-line client and my web browser. SNAC is currently my only gateway into the Fediverse. It seems to work very well.

I'm currently reading and interacting with a total over 1300 followers and followees, using tag filtering in tut, without any problems. This is a efficient power-user way to rip through posts and filter out what I'm not interested in, so I can find useful and relevant information from thousands of posts per day really quickly.

When I want to see an image in context I'll open the link in the web browser. I like it this way since I can limit my exposure to images, which sometimes turn out to be unsavory. Surprise, right?

I recommend you give it a spin. The backend proxy setup is about the same as if you were going to install Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc., so if you don't like it you can just put one of those other bloated beasts on the proxy port and call it a day. ;)

#snac #Fediverse #hosting #selfhosting

I have been using #snac since 2023-06-26. I like how easy it is to install and maintain. And I like its simple web interface with tree posts. snac is great!