So, basically the platform you stopped to use increased the incoming traffic and even makes the half of the "Mastodon" traffic in the last days? Doesn't this show how important this source is and how much potential there still is?

Next, I'm wondering why "Mastodon" is defined as "Mastodon". #Mastodon is one of multiple solutions in the #Fediverse and I'm more than pretty sure that many people are not using Mastodon, rather than #snac / #snac2, #GoToSocial,... It's like setting "Internet Explorer" as a synonym for browsers.

@mho @heiseonline

I'm fully with you! Well said and this is also where I really appreciate snac and further relay instances :)

Not being moderated by anyone is indeed the best thing and #snac2 / #snac offers this easily to almost anybody!

@menel

The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!

Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.

Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…

#networking #activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #opensource #community #socialmedia #relay #abuse #moderation

Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/

#Data #Fediverse #FreeBSD #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #Nginx #NoteHUB #OwnYourData #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #TipsAndTricks #Tutorial #Web

Awesome! Feel free to join and snac runs perfectly fine on a RPi! I built #snac for #RISCV (for my #Starfive #visionfive2 board) which even runs there pretty smooth :) also @grunfink is doing an absolutely great job as the dev behind the snac project.

@emb

Relays in general are already available for a longer time and there’re also many ones available. My relay instance is new - it popped up of an idea when I saw many new #snac instances and someone showed relay links. I wouldn’t have thought that my relay instance would grow that quick, so I’m happy to see this gets appreciated by the community :)

@emb

#HowTo install & run #snac on #FreeBSD - run your own #ActivityPub instance in the #Fediverse!

In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.

#opensource #fediverse #fediworld #alternatives #community #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD #activitypub #mastodon #relay #community #federated

https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

The BSD Cafe's snac instance is now registered to the @gyptazy relay.

Thanks to the recent addition of relay support, it is now possible to follow hashtags and benefit from message exchange between all instances connected to the same relay.

This will slightly increase the traffic on our instance, but it will also boost its visibility.

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #snac #snac2

Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!

But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.

#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!

And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[2]: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
[3]: https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

#community #opensource #development #coding #c #clang #homelab #hosting #BSD #RUNBSD #Howto

My new relay instance in the #Fediverse launched successfully :)

Just added a blog post: As I could see, not everyone was aware of the benefits of using such a service which is especially very important for smaller instances or even single-user instances. So, nothing new in the post - just a recap to summarize the things for newcomers :) #activitypub #mastodon #snac #pleroma #social #socialmedia #community

https://gyptazy.com/hosting-a-new-activitypub-relay-for-the-fediverse-including-mastodon-and-snac/

wow, that was quick - more than 30 instances already connected to my relay in just such a short time :) Let's be federated and help even smaller #instances to distribute their content & posts!

You can find more information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

The instance is reachable on IPv4 and IPv6.

#fediverse #mastodon #snac #snac2 #activitypub #relay #activtypubrelay #Pleroma #BSD #RUNBSD #devops #opensource #ipv6 #gotosocial #community #akkoma #pixelfed #selfhosting #homelab

@joel better use #snac/ #snac2 ;)

(In other news, the #snac instance on this poor Pentium Pro server is sweating hard whenever I post something. So let me know at @ltning@anduin.net if you have problems receiving/reading my posts. I've made some tweaks but it will be unavoidably detained for a while following each post, my apologies for that..)

#BIOS #POST #Retrocomputing

Alt...

Picture of BIOS during boot. It's a 1990 American Megatrends BIOS, for the TD60C board, BIOS version 2.42B. It shows a 20MHz CPU clock and 15872 KB RAM tested OK.

Until #snac starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.
#RunBSD #Patience

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

#snac is really awesome and @grunfink did an amazing job by creating this. It even runs smoothly on my RISC-V dev board which is really pretty slow.

@gumnos @ltning @rubenerd @grunfink

So..TLS aside, what is the most lightweight reverse proxy I can use instead of nginx in front of this thing? You know, in case I would like to move the instance from this beefy PPro to, say, a #486 or a #Nintendo Wii running #NetBSD? :)

#retrocomputing #BSD #stupididea

See also my main fediverse presence: @ltning@anduin.net

About this instance, at the time of writing:
- OS: #NetBSD 10
- Reverse proxy: nginx
- CPU: Dual Pentium Pro Overdrive, 333MHz
- RAM: 512MB EDO
- NIC: 3Com 100Mbit PCI NIC
- Storage: SATA 1.0 (CF and SSD)

#retrocomputing #butwhy