diaspora* vs snac
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted social networks options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
Not the right match-up?
Compare diaspora* with
choose an app… Mastodon Discourse Invidious NodeBB Lemmy Nitter Element Misskey Piped Fizzy Pixelfed Flarum HumHub Elk WriteFreely LibReddit Campsite Campfire Redlib Mixpost Pro Vanilla Forums Misago Loomio Artalk pump.io Plume Pleroma Endurain Manyfold phpBB Movim Elgg Friendica Mobilizon Phanpy Firefish OSSN Bridgy Fed Takahe Microblog.pub Fedify NeoDB webmention.io Bridgy Hometown Glitch-soc Soapbox Enigma 1/2 BBS Chirpy kbin Sharkey ActivityPub for WordPress Smithereen Postmarks Mastodon Bird UI Wavelog Hollo Gathio Loops Snikket Ktistec Libremdb Mbin Trustroots Akkoma Gancio Honk Socialhome Hubzilla Epicyon Iceshrimp mlmym Wafrn GoBlog Hatsu BuddyPress Sphinx Relay noStrudel Mitra lemmyBB Friendiqa Hub Fedibird MeshChatX Streams Enafore Sublinks Buddycloud Libervia Zap Nostr Relay Squeaknode Khatru Pyramid Catodon Route96 Osada usocial Tesseract AsmBB Bloat Forte GoToSocial Iceshrimp.NET Masto-FE (🦥 flavour) Peachpub PeerTube search-index Snort yarn.social
Compare snac with
choose an app… Mastodon Discourse Invidious NodeBB Lemmy Nitter Element Misskey Piped pump.io Pleroma Friendica Phanpy Firefish Bridgy Fed Takahe Microblog.pub Fedify Hometown Glitch-soc Sharkey ActivityPub for WordPress Hollo Ktistec Akkoma Honk Epicyon Iceshrimp Shuttlecraft Mitra Streams Khatru Pyramid
Feature diaspora* snac Category Social Networks Social Networks License AGPL-3.0 MIT Language Ruby C Setup difficulty Hard Medium Min. RAM 1,024 MB 64 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, source binary, source GitHub stars ★ 13,656 ★ 900 First released 2010 2022 Replaces Facebook, Twitter Twitter, Mastodon
Why pick each one
Choose snac if… Released under the MIT license Written in C Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM snac details
Frequently asked questions Is diaspora* or snac better? Neither is universally better. diaspora* has the larger community, while snac is simpler to set up (medium difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are diaspora* and snac free and open-source? Yes. diaspora* is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and snac under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run diaspora* and snac with Docker? diaspora*: yes. snac: check the project docs for container support.