net-im/snac 2.96 FreeBSD

Simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-16
Commit: 7ba78dfa32
License: MIT
Categories: net-im, www
Package size: 229.0 KiB, 513.3 KiB installed

Description

Snac is a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance.

It features:

Lightweight, minimal dependencies
Extensive support of ActivityPub operations.
Multiuser
Mastodon API support, so Mastodon-compatible apps can be used
Simple but effective web interface
Easily-accessed MUTE button
Tested interoperability with related software
No database needed
Totally JavaScript-free

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

net-im/snac

2.96

NetBSD

www/snac

2.95

DragonFly

net-im/snac

2.74

Install

Binary package:

pkg install snac

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/net-im/snac/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	snac>0:net-im/snac

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	2.95	2.95	-	2.81	2.96
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	2.95	2.96	n/a	2.77	2.96
FreeBSD:15:latest	2.95	2.96	n/a	2.81	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	2.95	2.95	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	2.95	2.96	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 1

libcurl.so : ftp/curl

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 10

Run dependencies 10

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: ssl
Service scripts: snac

Message after installing

To use snac, enable it in rc.conf using

  sysrc snac_enable=yes

To initialize the data, run

  service snac init

You can then start snac by running:

  service snac start

You can add a user by running:

  service snac run adduser <name>

Data is stored at /var/db/snac/data. For convenience the service includes
a `run` command for executing snac commands against this directory, such as
the `adduser` command shown above. See `snac --help` for a full list of
commands.

Files

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

snac-2.96.tar.gz

345452

c598fdb331d813c565161a354ee9d58589f1fb956411cf4556f35316965bd83a

Master sites 1

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/archive/${DISTVERSIONFULL}${EXTRACT_SUFX}?dummy=/

Commit history 2

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-16

7ba78dfa32

gmc

net-im/snac: Update 2.95 => 2.96

Changelog: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/tag/2.96/RELEASE_NOTES.md PR: 299360 Approved by: Matthew Phillips <[email protected]> (maintainer) Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) MFH: 2026Q4

2026-09-07

0e42776a51

gmc

net-im/snac: Update 2.89 => 2.95

Changelog: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/tag/2.95/RELEASE_NOTES.md PR: 298146 Approved by: Matthew Phillips <[email protected]> (maintainer) Sponsored by: UNIS Labs (vvd, commit patch) MFH: 2026Q3