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   The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:57:35 JST The Real Grunfink
   #Mastodon is the powerful war rig in the #Fediverse army against the axis of biased social networks; #snac is the little buffon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.
   
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:40:59 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • Pif
     Thank you very much!
     
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     Pif (pif@snac.yannicka.fr)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:41:12 JST Pif

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     @grunfink@comam.es snac is a very beautiful piece of software!
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:43:40 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • Santiago Lema :amiga:
     Totally agree. Low-resource-hungry software is essential in this battle (and in many others).
     
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     Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:43:41 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

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     @grunfink For what it’s worth I believe the small buffoon & all other middle-sized clowns play a very important role in the battle.

     The more I look at it, the more I feel that minimalism & most of all cost effectiveness is a central weapon against corporate control.

     They’re making FB & Instagram free on your cell’s 4G while direct human information exchange has to be paid. Any effort at minimalism reduces the gap between access to the voice of billionaires and access to ours.

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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:45:25 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • brian
     You're welcome!
     
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     brian (brian@farty.toot.monster)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:45:30 JST brian

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     I migrated from Mastodon to snac and am enjoying it quite a bit. Thank you!
     
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     Pif (pif@snac.yannicka.fr)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:59:40 JST Pif

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     • Santiago Lema :amiga:
     @santiago@masto.lema.org @grunfink@comam.es yes, I use snac because it's easy to install, low-ressource, easy to backup, ideal for self-instance, for a small group of people. And because I want to own my data.
     
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     Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:04:30 JST Stefano Marinelli

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     @grunfink snac is an example of how the Fediverse should be: sustainable, easy to run and compile, free from dependencies.

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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:34:52 JST The Real Grunfink

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     Totally agree. You're welcome!
     
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:34:54 JST Tim Chase

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     • Stefano Marinelli

     @stefano
     It's also part of what seems broken over in the Bluesky world: sure, it's "federated", but only if you have a huge investment in infrastructure.

     From Bryan Newbold's defense of atproto¹, "Our design goal is not to run the entire network on small instances…This architecture facilitates big-world indices…Such indices are not cheap at scale!"

     But I want my federation to be so affordable that anybody can get a domain-name, spin up a $1/month VPS instance², and participate in the fediverse. Things like snac make the completely feasible. So thanks, @grunfink!

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     ¹ https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t
     ² https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

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     CapitalB (capitalb@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:12:21 JST CapitalB

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     @gumnos @stefano @grunfink

     It runs on a Pi or a very old laptop.

     If a "solution" can't do that it is obsolete by design.

     Some android fedi apps work on ten year old phones as quick as on a newer device. All these fancy x alternatives do not work on old devices.