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+# snac
+
+A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance
+
+# Features
+
+- lightweight, minimal dependencies
+- large support of ActivityPub operations, e.g. write public notes, follow users, be followed, reply to the notes of others, admire wonderful content (like or boost), write private messages...
+- Easily-accessed MUTE button to silence morons
+- Tested interoperability with similar software
+- No database needed
+- Not much bullshit
+
+# About
+
+This program runs as a daemon (proxied by a TLS-enabled real httpd server) and provides the basic services for a Fediverse / ActivityPub instance (sharing messages and stuff from/to other systems like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc.).
+
+This is not the manual; man pages `snac(1)` (user manual), `snac(5)` (formats) and `snac(8)` (administrator manual) are what you are looking for.
+
+**This is a work in progress and everything is on fire and you can get hurt.**
+
+`snac` stands for Social Networks Are Crap.
+
+# Installation
+
+This 2.x release is written in C (unlike the 1.x prototype, which was written in Python). The only external dependencies are `openssl` and `curl`.
+
+On Debian/Ubuntu, you can satisfy these requirements by running
+
+```
+    apt install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
+```
+
+On OpenBSD you don't need to install anything because the base system provides all the needed software.
+
+Run `make` and then `make install` as root.
+
+See the administrator manual on how to proceed from here.
+
+# License and author
+
+See the LICENSE file for details.