Two things landed this week that belong in the same post. SnipeSocial shipped its 5.4.4 release on 6 June, a substantial update covering publishing, blogs, payments, identity infrastructure, security, and a long list of fixes. Alongside it, snipesearch.video joined the SnipeSocial passport, bringing the total to six sites on one account. Both are worth covering…
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SnipeSocial 5.4.4 deployed on 6 June 2026, completing in a record eleven minutes. The release consolidated months of development work across two internal build phases, incorporating everything that had been built since the previous release, and shipped the entire set as a single announced version. The eleven-minute deployment time is a record for a release…
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The SnipeSocial passport has expanded to toot.snipesearch.co.uk this week, bringing the total to five sites where your single SnipeSocial account gets you straight in. Requests served on snipesearch.com are also up 1,200% week on week. Both worth covering. How It Got to Five The passport rollout has followed a deliberate order. snipesearch.com was first, the…
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SnipeSearch started in a garage in Luton in 2005, on salvaged server hardware bought for a hundred pounds, running software from a magazine cover disc. No tracking. No behavioural profiling. No advertising surveillance. That was the point from day one, before privacy was a marketing angle, before it was a debate. It was just the…
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Snipesearch.com is launching its webmaster tools. The dashboard brings together snipesocial.co.uk single sign-on, structured site submission with free and paid priority tiers, invoice management, and the early infrastructure that Glass Eye will sit on top of. They are live today, on snipesearch.com, and they represent the full foundation for how webmasters, businesses, and creators will…
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TTWrite, the microblogging platform at ttwrite.4up.eu, has been updated to support sign-in and registration via SnipeSocial OAuth. Existing SnipeSocial users can now access TTWrite directly through their SnipeSocial account, with no separate registration process required. This update marks a significant step in the continued integration of the Snipe Group ecosystem, extending the single verified identity…
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Snipe Group Limited is today announcing the full launch of Snipe.pics, a federated image-sharing platform built on Pixelfed and the ActivityPub protocol. It is the latest service to join the SnipeSearch Fediverse ecosystem, an infrastructure that has been expanding steadily since our Mastodon instance launched in November 2022, and that now spans social networking, federated…
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The Fediverse stands at a crossroads. Decentralised social networking promised a world free from surveillance capitalism, where users own their data and communities govern themselves. But there’s a problem nobody wants to talk about: keeping the lights on. Every year, thousands of Fediverse instances vanish without warning. Entire communities, years of posts, connections, and conversations…
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We’ve just completed a major infrastructure upgrade across the datacenter that powers https://www.snipesocial.co.uk/, and you’re going to notice the difference immediately. Every blade in the datacenter has been upgraded with new hardware, fundamentally changing how the platform performs under the hood. Everything feels faster. Feeds load quicker, interactions are instant, and those annoying slowdowns during…
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A comprehensive reconstruction of five years of service expansion, infrastructure sovereignty, community building, and the painful lessons of partnership dependence By January 2015, SnipeSearch had transitioned from the restrictive Orbit meta-system to fully sovereign infrastructure. Network sovereignty was anchored by the registration of PCGUYS as a dedicated Internet Service Provider (ISP). This hardware density and…
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