So I've been running my own #Snac instance for the past week and I have to say that I'm actually loving it. It hardly takes up any resources and the inbuilt web interface is easily configurable with
So I've been running my own #Snac instance for the past week and I have to say that I'm actually loving it. It hardly takes up any resources and the inbuilt web interface is easily configurable with
So I've been running my own #Snac instance for the past week and I have to say that I'm actually loving it. It hardly takes up any resources and the inbuilt web interface is easily configurable with nothing more than #CSS .
There are some things that folk used to running #Mastodon might not like. For example it does not show any follower or following numbers to any instances. So people using Mastodon will see 0 followers and 0 following even though those Snac uses may have 100's of followers .
You do get a people tab on the snac interface that is just a list divided into people following you and people you follow but no numbers. This is an intentional design feature by the author @[email protected] who stated.
I haven't implemented a simple count of following / followers on purpose; I consider all metrics in network media inherently toxic, because it's a way of comparing the relative success of people. This is also why, as seen from other Fediverse implementations, snac accounts always report 0 / 0 connections.
Also not all features work with android / iOS apps but most of the essentials do. I occasionally use #Tusky when I'm not just using the web interface for Snac which I just find easier. I think I will be staying with this fantastic lightweight piece of software and look forward to see what new features get added in the future. A wish would be to have a way of importing followers from Mastodon to Snac, which I think the dev is working on at the moment. Oh and I nearly forgot to say that you can import the CSV file of people that you are following through the command line and it's fairly simple to do too. I'd 100% recommended giving Snac a try if you're looking for a no nonsene lightweight #Fediverse instance.
Thank you very much for the review!
You're very welcome and thank you so much for snac.
@ricardo @justine @grunfink although I get the point, I’not 100% with it. I don’t care about the overall numbers, but being able to see who accepted to be followed or who follows someone helps for reputation evaluation: friends of friends may be friends / friends of suckers must be suckers. And yes, I know it can also serve the bad ones to get a list of people to harass…
You can see who accepted to be followed as they will have a mutual icon next to their profile name and likewise if you click on someone's profile link in your people tab you can see their metrics.
@justine @grunfink I've been enjoying your #snac posts and am thinking about migrating from #Mastodon 4.2. Migrating to 4.3 appears to be more effort than I'm interested in at the moment (simple docker-compose tweak & restart didn't work).
Took a quick look at your timeline - real threading?! I'm sold! Like the simple view as well.
I wonder if this migration will break all the links on my blog. Did you migrate data or start fresh? What was lost in the migration?
I basically just downloaded my following.csv and imported it as per this doc which imported all the great folk I follow. The rest was starting a fresh and importing all your followers from Mastodon is not yet possible but never say never. If I fully move I will just pin a post and update the Bio on my old instance to tell everyone where I'm at now.
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#Migrating_from_Mastodon_to_snac