snac

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance

Features

Lightweight, minimal dependencies
Extensive 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...
Simple but effective web interface
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.

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 also need to install curl:

    pkg_add curl

Run make and then make install as root.

See the administrator manual on how to proceed from here.

License

See the LICENSE file for details.

Author

grunfink @grunfink@comam.es

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