Post #1657357

2025-12-04 18:05 UTC

@stesnac Hello from Canada, I am grateful for all the work you put into your BSD cafe community. As an outside observer, your example and public decisions have answered much of my fediverse questions, except this one : Were you to start your BSD Cafe community today, and decided to choose only one fediverse program to run, Do you think SNAC would be enough to satisfy your community members, instead of using Mastodon ? That&#39;s my question. Here&#39;s some extra context : I don&#39;t want to run Mastodon as it seems the technical aspects are beyond my abilities. I have learning-curve fatigue the more I looked into setting up and then maintaining Mastodon. I&#39;m still considering Friendica, simply because I can turn RSS feeds into fediverse usernames, which appear in the Local Friendica timeline. Take away my RSS requirement, Then SNAC seems like it&#39;s enough. | #SNAC #BSDCafe

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@stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe 2025-12-04 19:53

Hello! I love #snac and I use it wherever I can, even in projects like #FediMeteo. For the BSD Cafe, I'm happy with the snac instance, and it's been online for a long time, but today I would still install Mastodon as the primary instance, and I'll explain why: moderation and user management. Moderation, on snac, is necessarily less comprehensive than on Mastodon, and consequently, it becomes much more difficult to handle issues with it. Reports as understood on Mastodon do not exist, and as a result, the outcome might be detrimental even to other instances. That being said, if you have a community with a small number of users (although the number of users is relatively important, given that the largest FediMeteo instance has over 1200 cities/users) but, especially, if they are trusted, you can go with snac. If you need a more complete solution, perhaps it may not be the best solution (yet). I tried Friendica and I like it, but not enough to have a clear opinion on how it performs with larger communities. Mastodon, once you understand how it works, is not complicated to maintain, but, like all stacks, it needs to be fully understood to avoid problems (e.g., cleanup, etc.).

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@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk 2025-12-04 20:00

I can say that I use snac successfully and don't miss mastodon at all. CC: @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

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@thedaemon@snac.9front.club 2025-12-05 00:14

I love my snac and won't go back to mastodon. It's great and minimal. CC: @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

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