https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://this-is-fine.io/tags/snac/ Recent content in Snac on Fuchsbau https://this-is-fine.io/tags/snac/ https://source.unsplash.com/2000x1322/?fox 1440 Hugo 0.125.4 de-DE Wed, 20 May 2026 22:26:12 UT https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20260520-mastodon-to-snac/ Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:00 UT ff0x https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20260520-mastodon-to-snac/ The lab used to run Mastodon on Kubernetes: PostgreSQL, a Redis-compatible cache, and S3-shaped media storage on top of the usual edge stack. That worked, but it was heavy for a small personal instance — more moving parts than the workload justified. The fediverse home at this-is-fine.social now runs snac instead: a minimal ActivityPub server in portable C, no database, all state on a single filesystem tree, backed up off-cluster with the same VolSync + restic pattern as other stateful apps. Infrastructure