soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Admin email
social@octade.net

Search results for tag #snac

[?]Santiago, né ? :amiga: 👾 » 🌐
@santi@gone.lema.org

@ploum @stefano I absolutely did for a while too. At some point I switched to Gotosocial because of issues with my iOS clients (likely fixed since then).

I do keep a my old #snac instance alive as an archive and update it just as easily as in the past years with that little script that just fetches the source and compiles.

A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

Alt...A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

    Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

    That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

      [?]ploum » 🌐
      @ploum@mamot.fr

      @stefano : is really fascinating.

      I wonder if minimalist people could use it to completely replace their Mastodon use, in the long term too (maintainance, keeping up with changes in API, etc)

        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
        @grunfink@comam.es

        Well, I started developing in the Summer of 2022 (with previous experience) and I still find ActivityPub somewhat confusing 😉

          [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
          @grunfink@comam.es

          Anyone can post anything to a person's inbox. However, does a lot of checks to see if this post deserves to be here, e.g., if you are explicitly mentioned, if it's from someone you follow, if it's a reply to a conversation between people you follow, if it contains a hashtag you follow, etc. There are many more conditions. If none matches, the message is dropped with a log message similar to "post xxxx not for us".

          On the other, whenever a post from someone you follow gets in, snac tries to retrieve (following the inReplyTo fields chain) all the conversation up to the beginning to give you some context in the conversation. It may happen that, if that account you follow deletes their post, the replied post is left in your timeline, for no apparent reason.

            [?]Paul SomeoneElse » 🌐
            @pkw@snac.d34d.net

            Can people "post" stuff to a person's INBOX if
            they don't have any relationship? (in ActivityPub)

            That might explain why I have a single instance snac
            server, and still get basically spam posts.

            I know I get something similar to that when there is
            like a secondary relationship thru someone i am following.
            But these things I see seemingly have no connecting relationships.



              [?]✨ollOGies🎆 » 🌐
              @philsawa@ioc.exchange

              day 58

              20260925Fri(yay)

              (graphene snac sketch)

no driving to school 2day as the younger 3 were all home + En

but investigating running snac on userland through tiny core

isn't that nerdarrific?

              Alt...(graphene snac sketch) no driving to school 2day as the younger 3 were all home + En but investigating running snac on userland through tiny core isn't that nerdarrific?

                [?]Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 » 🌐
                @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au

                @decryption @andyb You'd be look at #snac to do that. Check out @stefano snac category on his blog: https://it-notes.dragas.net/categories/snac/

                  [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                  @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                  Sorry, only minimally sorry XD

                  P.S., Yes #snac is good too. Very excited about #LittleFedi as well. Not so much into *key, *oma, or friendica, but not hating. Just not my thing. Cheers.

                  #Fediverse #Mastodon #snark

                  Judgmental Volturi / Smug Vampires meme:

Top caption:
Me and my fedipeeps watching people on the fediverse complain about "Mastodon" stupid limitations/design choices...

Bottom caption:
...from our GoToSocial instance

                  Alt...Judgmental Volturi / Smug Vampires meme: Top caption: Me and my fedipeeps watching people on the fediverse complain about "Mastodon" stupid limitations/design choices... Bottom caption: ...from our GoToSocial instance

                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                    @grunfink@comam.es

                    Hi, teajaygrey!

                    The best way to include links with unusual characters in is to use the Markdown syntax for links, like in East of Eden.

                    That is, an open square bracket, then the alt text, then the open bracket, then the url, then the close bracket (see snac(5) for more info).

                      [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                      @grunfink@comam.es

                      You're welcome! Enjoy your

                        [?]Ethan Black » 🌐
                        @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                        I got some custom emoji set up on my tasty :sheik_dab:

                        I now also have a favicon :thonk: (goodbye Susie :cap_salute:) and I overhauled my config :nervous_sweat: Fun!

                          [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                          @grunfink@comam.es

                          This thing is a bit or a mess

                            bruh/a1ba boosted

                            [?]p » 🌐
                            @p@hj.9fs.net

                            Sometimes people like to say that the 'likes' in the FEDIVERSE don't mean anything. Maybe to some.

                            If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

                            @grunfink@comam.es

                            mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                            Alt...mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                              @grunfink@comam.es

                              it could be possible to hack to run on a machine
                              Sadly, no. I wish it was possible, but as far as I know, due to a technical decision I took in the design (using hard links for many things), snac does not work under 9front.

                              CC: @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                Because it's technically impossible to set up a Fediverse server with absolutely no AI code underneath whatsoever
                                Well, that's not totally exact. I'm the main developer of the ActivityPub server (and web client) and I'm actively against any AI or LLM. This is a line in the CONTRIBUTING.md file:
                                PRs, diff patches and bug reports must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.
                                I've never used a so-called AI in my life and will never do.

                                If I recall correctly, the Gotosocial Fediverse software also have a very clear position in this topic (i.e. no AI).

                                You're very right in the OS positions regarding LLMs, sadly. The nearest to what I approve is NetBSD, but it's not totally clean.

                                  [?]The Fulcrum, too » 🌐
                                  @thefulcrum@newsletter.mobileatom.net

                                  The Programmer’s Fulcrum 4 September, 2026

                                  Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                  Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

                                  It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

                                  This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

                                  As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

                                  IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.

                                  The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

                                  We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

                                  There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

                                  Or you can scroll down to your favorite section.

                                  FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.


                                  Featured Item(s)

                                  Iris Meredith writes:

                                  So, when I hear a tech person say that something’s “just a tool”, I can’t help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves. Tools, unfortunately, simply cannot be the neutral, separate thing that so much of the tech world would like them to be, and pretending otherwise, let alone telling people affected by the tools that they’re simply using them wrong, is an abdication of our moral duty to avoid, inasmuch as is possible, doing harm. We really ought to do better.

                                  There’s no such thing as Just a Tool

                                  There is such a thing as TechBros, unfortunately. And their cuntier cousins, AIBros. And apolitical is a synonym for fascism-friendly. At least straight-up Nazis aren’t hypocrites.

                                  Social Coding Commons writes:

                                  … in modern society, generally speaking, we give too much credence to the technosphere. We take the idea that innovation equates to societal progress as a given, to which we must subsequently adapt ourselves. We tend to turn things around, where “digital transformation” suddenly means how humans must adapt their lives to new technology that comes to disrupt it. And not the other way round.

                                  The Fediverse has evolved purely as a technosphere (unfortunately).

                                  Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web

                                  A fan-fucking-tastic piece.

                                  On a relate note, Hamish Campbell has thoughts on Open Governance Bodies / Building:

                                  Power stays with the people doing the work

                                  This is a good explanation of how digital communities and projects can govern themselves.

                                  And we published an article this week, where I write:

                                  The premise of this article is that developing or using ActivityPub tools, participating in the Fediverse, publishing to the Indie Web / Open Media Network, and adopting the arsenal of the Techno Anarchist Manifesto are the new punk.

                                  ActivityPub, the Fediverse, the IndieWeb/Open Media Network, and Techno Anarchism = Punk Rock


                                  CMSs

                                  Jan Miksovsky explores

                                  Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing

                                  A great idea. Although only available on newer Macs unfortunately.

                                  I also ran across AnyPub, an editor for Standard.Site publications.

                                  CSS Tricks explores the:

                                  WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

                                  Good news for those migrating legacy sites. And avoiding the shit known as React, at least some of the time.

                                  Why Do I Write This? writes:

                                  Neocities is for nostalgic masochists

                                  Seems about right.

                                  Scraps! expounds:

                                  On Atmospheric Stacks…

                                  Mark W.Rites says:

                                  Alt Text is the Ocean You Thought Was a Pond

                                  Faircamp announces:

                                  Faircamp 2.0

                                  And Vidnight has:

                                  I disagree with the take that the internet is dead

                                  Enjoy the open web peeps. It helps keep me sane. And I am happy to see this from a 20 year old. 🙂

                                  Ghost

                                  Spectral Web Services has:

                                  I accidentally built an image library for Ghost

                                  This should be in Ghost core. It sucks that it isn’t.

                                  Their competitor, Magic Pages has:

                                  A press of your “own”

                                  Good stuff.

                                  Back to top 👆🏼


                                  Tools

                                  Tuta has:

                                  Digital Sovereignty Study: EU IT leaders are quitting U.S. Big Tech

                                  U.S. Sanctions against Autistici / Inventati are the next wake-up call for digital sovereignty

                                  KDE examines:

                                  KDE For Digital Sovereignty

                                  NLNet urges:

                                  Apply for funding before November 3rd 2026

                                  They are going the correct direction with AI use, which is to severely restrict it.

                                  Organic Maps has:

                                  Multi-selection for bookmarks and tracks, a CarPlay dashboard, hiding tracks on the map, and readable share links in the August 2026 update

                                  Threat Model shows us:

                                  How to migrate from 1Password

                                  VPNs

                                  Mullvad is:

                                  Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead

                                  Chat / Team Chat

                                  FluffyChat shows us:

                                  How to use end-to-end encryption in FluffyChat

                                  About Signal reports:

                                  Signal introduces new notification settings for Android and Desktop

                                  Browsers

                                  Servo shares:

                                  July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more!

                                  9to5Linux reports:

                                  Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

                                  Remember to use Firefox forks like Zen, Waterfox, or Librewolf.

                                  Webkit has:

                                  Submit your ideas for Interop 2027

                                  Fixing Top-Level Await in Safari

                                  Remember not to use Safari for anything you want kept private. And preferably not at all.

                                  Cloud

                                  Nextcloud shows us:

                                  How to set up UnifiedPush on Android for Nextcloud Talk: push notifications without Google Play Services

                                  Fuck Google!

                                  Writing

                                  Joplin shares:

                                  What’s new in Joplin 3.7

                                  The new table editor in the Markdown editor is awesome. The addition of AI features sucks. At least they are optional you can use a local model.

                                  LibreOffice announces:

                                  Yes, no AI is now a feature

                                  Bon. AI should almost never be used, but if it is (translation), it should be as an optional extension.

                                  Creative

                                  Kdenlive announces:

                                  Kdenlive 26.08 is out!

                                  9to5Linux reports:

                                  OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

                                  Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

                                  Linux / Open Android

                                  And:

                                  Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI

                                  Like Linux core, Debian chooses to slowly ensloppify and likely enshittify.

                                  F-Droid has its weekly summary:

                                  Searching complexity and Taler update

                                  This week’s featured OMN tool

                                  Dokieli

                                  Write, publish, and annotate articles from your web browser. Your content stays yours.

                                  Dokeli

                                  Back to top 👆🏼


                                  Programming

                                  Typemill expounds:

                                  On the way to automate user manuals and knowledge bases

                                  This is a legitimate use of local AI. It’s the second most legit use after translation.

                                  Git

                                  The Linux Foundation has a useful course for KISS developers (rare for them):

                                  Share Smarter GPU Resources and Master Git
                                  from First Commit to Merge Conflict

                                  Their learning platform subscription is not cheap, but this might be worth a one month one while you finish the course.

                                  HTML

                                  Vasilis van Gemert explores:

                                  What are we not talking about anymore?

                                  Master.dev examines:

                                  New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026

                                  Great stuff.

                                  Vale says:

                                  initial-scale is dead!

                                  As in unnecessary.

                                  JavaScript

                                  Ollie Williams explores:

                                  Highlighting a range of text inside an input or textarea

                                  A rarely needed though legitimate use of JavaScript.

                                  AI

                                  So AI is now fucking over tech conferences as well:

                                  Lettre ouverte pour la survie des événements techniques en France

                                  And freelancers:

                                  Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

                                  One of the main purposes of AI is to drive down the cost of labor (it’s a fascist artifact). And these are the consequences when you use it.

                                  Other

                                  OakChris1955 looks at:

                                  Migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Codeberg Pages wasn’t that difficult, actually

                                  I have used Codeberg to deploy a test Publii site. And it worked great. But, you were limited to one site at that point.

                                  This week’s featured programming tool

                                  Markdown

                                  Write for your website and documentation. And not for AI.

                                  Markdown

                                  Back to top 👆🏼


                                  ActivityPub

                                  ActivityPub for WordPress shares:

                                  9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports

                                  This is a perfect example of what an update announcement should be. 😉

                                  Social Coding Commons opines:

                                  I argue that ForgeFed and ActivityPub should support multi-types as specified in Activity Streams

                                  They are correct and this provides an insight into why AP development is so slow and convoluted. And to why there is much less innovation in the Fediverse as compared to the Atmosphere with ATProto. ActivityPub is just more anarchic.

                                  Not that its a bad thing, as I point out in my featured article. Plus, it’s definitely more enshittification-resistant.

                                  Plus, core ATProto has much more money and developers behind it than ActivityPub does.

                                  Terence Eden has:

                                  A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

                                  ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!

                                  In effect he’s creating something similar to Starling for bots. And it’s for use as a developer learning tool.

                                  A review of the ActivityPub book.

                                  Andros Fenollosa explores:

                                  Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)

                                  Abuuba announces:

                                  abuuba 1.0 is out

                                  Interesting.

                                  Mobilizon needs you:

                                  Version 5.2.5 is coming

                                  This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool

                                  ForgeFed

                                  ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem.

                                  ForgeFed

                                  Back to top 👆🏼


                                  Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

                                  This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren’t able to comprehend ⬇️:

                                  • The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
                                  • and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
                                  • and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

                                  So, recognize their natures and don’t ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

                                  Fediverse

                                  TootSDK announces:

                                  A new release of TootSDK – 23.3.0

                                  Owncast announces:

                                  Owncast v0.3.0 has been released!

                                  Fedilab Apps has:

                                  FediHood now lets you sign up and log in with your Mastodon account

                                  FediHood now supports Lemmy

                                  This definitely makes it more useful.

                                  Mastodon announces:

                                  We just released Mastodon v4.7.1, v4.6.7, v4.5.17 and v4.4.24

                                  And the Real Grunfink announces:

                                  I’ve just published version 2.95 of Snac

                                  Bonfire

                                  Bonfire has:

                                  Bonfire 1.0.7: what’s new and what’s next

                                  Great stuff.

                                  Building shared infrastructure for the Fediverse

                                  Very important because -> see my comments about the Social Coding Commons piece above.

                                  Back to top 👆🏼


                                  More

                                  Andros Fenollosa notes:

                                  There is no such thing as full decentralization

                                  A great overview and explanation.

                                  Open Risk Management goes down an empirical rabbit hole:

                                  Towards a Graph Calculus for Decentralized Social Networks

                                  マリウス shares:

                                  Hyperuplink: Discuss like it’s 1998

                                  Cool.

                                  ATProto

                                  Venoom examines:

                                  Decentralizing social media using ATProto and Matrix (venoom)

                                  Eventuallycoding has:

                                  Le piège de la transparence par défaut sur Bluesky et le protocole ATProto

                                  Skyreader shares the:

                                  Skyreader Vision

                                  Atmosphere

                                  Structural Integrity explains:

                                  W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

                                  Roomy looks at:

                                  Federating friendly spaces

                                  P2P

                                  Worm-Blossum shares its:

                                  Week 35 (2026)

                                  Webrings

                                  Ross Floate has:

                                  I built a new website. It’s happiest when you leave.

                                  Very cool. I am going to try to replicate this on one of my sites.

                                  XMPP

                                  The Association for Progressive Communications has an interview:

                                  Libervia on building an all-in-one communication platform grounded in the right to privacy

                                  Daniel Gultsch celebrates:

                                  Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

                                  Matrix

                                  Matrix has:

                                  Neo Nominated for Open Source Competition

                                  Is presence fixed yet?

                                  This Week in Matrix 2026-09-04


                                  CTAs

                                  And please build something for a community! We’re painfully nurturing Manade.


                                  Blasts from the past

                                  Previous Battalion Posts

                                  Previous Symfony Station Posts

                                  Header illustration with text over dark background of stars, spaceship, and astronaut.

                                  Alt...Header illustration with text over dark background of stars, spaceship, and astronaut.

                                  [?]p » 🌐
                                  @p@hj.9fs.net

                                  fam: did you know that you can share direct urls to snac users' posts and hide the bio?

                                  just append the url with ?terse=true

                                  behold and compare the results!
                                  https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
                                  https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true


                                    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

                                    I've upgraded in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

                                    The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

                                    codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

                                      Iron Bug boosted

                                      [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                      I've just published version 2.95 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

                                      Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

                                      Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

                                      Added some fixes to media proxy code.

                                      Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

                                      Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

                                      Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

                                      Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

                                      Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

                                      Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

                                      https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                      If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


                                        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                        Hi everyone. Yesterday, many instances had a failure in the notifications area: accessing it was impossible. I have not much information about what the problem is, but it seems it's related to a specially crafted post that makes snac hang. If this is happening to you, and you have access to snac's disk storage, you can delete manually the files inside the notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).

                                        Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.

                                        Sorry for the inconvenience.

                                          [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                          @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                          I restored this instance from a backup from a couple of days ago and things are working again. I am not sure what happened this morning but the instance was not happy.

                                          The CPU was baked from the snac process running at max. I shutdown nginx so that no traffic was coming through and snac was still sitting there chewing through the CPU -- even after a reboot.

                                          It's been more than six months here, maybe it's time for me to built and migrate again.


                                            [?]p » 🌐
                                            @p@hj.9fs.net

                                            The official achivements list (so far).

                                            https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

                                            @grunfink@comam.es

                                            get snacpilled achievement

                                            Alt...get snacpilled achievement

                                              soapdog boosted

                                              [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                              @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                              RE: rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@ste

                                              Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

                                                [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                @grunfink @nina_kali_nina FediMeteo does, thanks to !

                                                  soapdog boosted

                                                  [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                  Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?
                                                  Even more: , an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.

                                                  https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                    is the powerful war rig in the army against the axis of biased social networks; is the little buffoon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.


                                                      [?]ltning » 🌐
                                                      @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                                      @gourd My alter ego @ltning runs on a 486. Yes, the actual #snac server instance. And also X11. :) "Fast" or "snappy" are not applicable adjectives, though.

                                                        [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                        @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                        @the_coffee_lover yes! I
                                                        set up a instance just a few weeks ago.

                                                        It’s been purring along nicely, without ever giving me any trouble.

                                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                          There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one and one .

                                                          Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

                                                          This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

                                                          Thanks, @grunfink !

                                                            [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                            @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                            Somehow my main instance, which is a large Mastodon server operated by professionals, is significantly slower than my little single-user instance running on the Raspi Zero in my shelf.

                                                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                              You're right; the /api/v1/mutes entrypoint (and others) needs authentication and should return 401 if none is provided, but in 's case it's just a stub that returns an empty array, so it's irrelevant what HTTP code it returns.

                                                              I may change it to return the correct code eventually, but I don't consider it a priority.

                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                I've just published version 2.94 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes (mostly bug fixes):

                                                                The author of a replied post is no longer added to the CC: line, as it does not have much sense.

                                                                Fixed mentions for users with hyphens in their identifiers.

                                                                Unlisted replies to unknown posts were being skipped from the timeline, so don't do that.

                                                                If an actor marked as broken gets a post boosted (proving that is [back] functioning), it's unmarked as such.

                                                                Don't try (and fail) to parse non-UTC dates in posts (I'll provide a real fix eventually).

                                                                Fixed a redirection loop in the /users alias.

                                                                Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made changing the sensitive content string impossible, avatars and headers can be deleted (contributed by bm90).

                                                                Updated Czech and Italian translations (contributed by pmjv and fidiben).

                                                                https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


                                                                  [?]Bitslingers-R-Us » 🌐
                                                                  @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

                                                                  @jspath55 @stefano Nice! Perhaps I’ll do something similar with my single core RISC-V email server. A gig of RAM is extreme overkill for an email server.

                                                                  Curious - what’re the advantages and disadvantages of LittleFedi compared with, say, #snac?

                                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                    Hi. In , you can follow a specific tag of a specific Mastodon instance using its direct URL, like e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/snac2

                                                                    CC: @jorijn@jorijn.com

                                                                      [?]Root Moose » 🌐
                                                                      @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                      Thinking about a new domain+project...

                                                                      Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

                                                                      Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

                                                                      I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

                                                                      Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

                                                                      I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

                                                                      What's out there?

                                                                        [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                                        @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                                        Interesting: works wonderfully as a client for .

                                                                        Except that for some reason, in Notifications view, it shows the “New notifications” overlay when there actually aren’t any new notifications 🤔

                                                                          [?]DeltaLima 🐧 » 🌐
                                                                          @DeltaLima@social.la10cy.net

                                                                          The former cluster member, now the only one serving my website, is with that power consumption now an ideal replacement. The wyse 3040 power consumption was around the same. with turbo boost enabled, the n4100 consumes up to 10W in total, and 5-6W in idle.
                                                                          Running off grid from my solar system battery, every watt counts. So i am really happy to have this machine now at such a low power consumption.
                                                                          I guess I will migrate the old instance there, the old P II was too loud to let it run 😅

                                                                            [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                            @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                            Amazingly, the amd64 binary (stripped) and its source code still fits in a 1.2 MB floppy disk 🖬

                                                                            $ ls -l
                                                                            total 920
                                                                            -rwxr-x--- 1 grunfink src 607888 jul 25 13:42 snac
                                                                            -rw-r----- 1 grunfink src 330882 jul 25 13:43 snac-2.93.tar.gz

                                                                              [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                                                                              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                              So far so good as has survived and my website. Git upgraded but cgit has a wee issue that it won't display the tree files contents but will if you click plain. Probably some highlighter issue ??

                                                                                hairylarry boosted

                                                                                [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                since 2022 discussion with the scientist @bandali (subscribe to their new instance! - boost for this please)

                                                                                toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bh

                                                                                by @kentpitman

                                                                                Joined by schemacs implementor @ramin_hal9001 !

                                                                                I have a stock of questions. If you think you don't know who bandali is check his monthly software release blog.

                                                                                Major theme is human-emacs.org/ and , , , the

                                                                                Lispy gopher climate emphasis gopher !

                                                                                Alt...Lispy gopher climate emphasis gopher !

                                                                                  hairylarry boosted

                                                                                  [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                  @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                  Three hours to live with @bandali on !
                                                                                  toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bh

                                                                                  0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas)

                                                                                  I am not accepting to treat bandali as a stallman effigy.

                                                                                  We *will* talk about human (anti faction).

                                                                                  We are promoting awareness of bandali's new personal instance (thanks @grunfink ), if you could follow / boost to that avail.

                                                                                  Bandali:
                                                                                  fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-j
                                                                                  gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali

                                                                                  @screwtape_channel

                                                                                  Very gopher-centric lispy gopher show banner.

                                                                                  Alt...Very gopher-centric lispy gopher show banner.

                                                                                    screwlisp boosted

                                                                                    [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                    @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                    CONFIRMED @bandali (note the new fediversal account) will join us on the show tomorrow!

                                                                                    toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bh - don't forget to follow bandali !

                                                                                    Remember it is every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas being 0UTC Wednesday, or 25 hours from this toot. (Every week since 2022.).

                                                                                    live - anonradio.net/

                                                                                    toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?a ( @screwtape_channel ).

                                                                                    The red ink Lispy Gopher Show banner (featuring Maude and not Bandali) unix_surrealism.

anonradio.net
LISPPY
GOPHER
SHOW.

                                                                                    Alt...The red ink Lispy Gopher Show banner (featuring Maude and not Bandali) unix_surrealism. anonradio.net LISPPY GOPHER SHOW.

                                                                                      [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                      Hi. After some incorrect user / password tries from a given IP, bans it for a (configurable) amount of time. This is probably what has happened to you on your mobile.

                                                                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                        It’s not Tuesday yet, but it will be soon.
                                                                                        And I want to thank @grunfink for creating and maintaining snac. Tomorrow I’ll talk about FediMeteo at DevConf, and it would never have come to be if it weren’t for snac and for the help the author gave me in fixing some things to optimize its use.

                                                                                        True Open Source, made with passion, by people who do things for the love of the things themselves.

                                                                                          [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                                                                          @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                                                                          While watching the Project Hail Mary, I have upgraded we're dreaming to to v2.93. Easy upgrade like usual! Amaze, amaze, amaze!

                                                                                            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                            @82mhz @rl_dane @daj that's why I like solutions like . No nonsense decisions, but a specific idea behind.

                                                                                              [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                                                              @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                                              CW: Spicy take about Mastodon (specifically) [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                              If you really believe in the silly 500 character limit, then why the heck is everyone posting "3/12" continuation threads?

                                                                                              Either the limit is a good idea, and nobody should post multi-part toots, or its a dumb idea, and should be retired (in favor of a ~6k post limit). One or the other. Cut the crap, already.

                                                                                              I'd 100x rather see long posts shortened with a "See more" button than yet another toot that ends with "1/" 🤦🏻‍♂️

                                                                                              Forcing people to create threads just to get their thought across is terrible UX, and I'm tired of being diplomatic about it.

                                                                                              #Mastodon #GoToSocial #GtS #snac #fediverse

                                                                                              Edit: I forgot, it's 500, not 250. I was probably thinking of Twitter, which went from 140 to 280, and now who even knows. XD

                                                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                                I've just published version 2.93 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                                Added a new admirations entry point to the web UI, containing a timeline of liked, boosted and reacted posts. Please take note that, after installing the new version, it will start empty, and be filled with subsequent reactions (contributed by violette).

                                                                                                It's now possible to disable showing posts in a given set of languages.

                                                                                                Nested quoted posts are limited up to 3 levels.

                                                                                                New configuration knob: by setting keep_replies_posts to true in server.json, remote posts that a local user has replied to are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

                                                                                                New configuration knob: by setting keep_replied_me to true in server.json, remote replies to local posts are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

                                                                                                Ensure actors' public key PEM never includes anything after the end marker.

                                                                                                Fixed some memory leaks (contributed by inz).

                                                                                                Several additional keyId checks (many thanks to lainsoykaf for bringing this to my attention).

                                                                                                Fixed crash in the JSON parser (many thanks to nullenvk for bringing this to my attention).

                                                                                                Mastodon API: fixed lost custom emojis after edition (contributed by e0w0e).

                                                                                                Updated French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish translations (contributed by dragondaddy, daltux, zen).

                                                                                                https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                                If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


                                                                                                  [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                                                                  @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                                                  Huh. I've never seen that before. In the #snac web interface, it shows up as a #WebMention.

                                                                                                  Pity @tut isn't being developed anymore. :'(

                                                                                                  Screenshot of tut with the following text:

Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut

Full text of screenshot:

tut - notifications (1/1) - rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
[H]ome                              │Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https:
09:50 rl_dane@polymaths.social      │//github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut
09:42 r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe          │
09:35 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.   │
09:25 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.   │
09:22 fedops@fosstodon.org          │
09:19 fedops@fosstodon.org        ⤶ │
09:12 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.   │
09:06 fedops@fosstodon.org        ⤶ │
09:05 ♺ Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchang   │
09:01 ♺ byte@awawa.club             │
[N]otifications                     │
09:44 netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org     ⤶ │
09:40 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe           ⤶ │
09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe           ★ │
09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe           ⤶ │
09:13 daltux@snac.daltux.net      ⤶ │
08:54 prahou@merveilles.town      ⤶ │
08:49 daltux@snac.daltux.net      ⤶ │
08:39 daltux@snac.daltux.net        │
08:35 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe   ♺ │
08:26 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe   ★ │
00:52 ameredith@deacon.social     ★ │
-- LIST --
Press ? or :help to learn how tut functions

                                                                                                  Alt...Screenshot of tut with the following text: Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut Full text of screenshot: tut - notifications (1/1) - rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe [H]ome │Notification "reaction" is not implemented. Open an issue at https: 09:50 rl_dane@polymaths.social │//github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut 09:42 r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe │ 09:35 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:25 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:22 fedops@fosstodon.org │ 09:19 fedops@fosstodon.org ⤶ │ 09:12 ♺ relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy. │ 09:06 fedops@fosstodon.org ⤶ │ 09:05 ♺ Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchang │ 09:01 ♺ byte@awawa.club │ [N]otifications │ 09:44 netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org ⤶ │ 09:40 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ⤶ │ 09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ★ │ 09:35 bpl@snac.bsd.cafe ⤶ │ 09:13 daltux@snac.daltux.net ⤶ │ 08:54 prahou@merveilles.town ⤶ │ 08:49 daltux@snac.daltux.net ⤶ │ 08:39 daltux@snac.daltux.net │ 08:35 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ♺ │ 08:26 stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ★ │ 00:52 ameredith@deacon.social ★ │ -- LIST -- Press ? or :help to learn how tut functions

                                                                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                                    Haven't tested it myself (I have no Apple hardware), but Mastoblaster (@mastoblaster@mastoblaster.app) not only works, but has as a first citizen target.

                                                                                                    CC: @MonaApp@mastodon.social @amd@snac.amd.im

                                                                                                      [?]Ethan Black » 🌐
                                                                                                      @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                                                                                                      @rl_dane@polymaths.social "Webmentions"? Huh. I got a weird snac notification that used that word, when I posted linking to another one of my posts.
                                                                                                      I just figured that was how handled quote posts.


                                                                                                      Webmention by https://social.golemwire.com/golemwire/p/1781275542.416093 notification in my snac server

                                                                                                      Alt...Webmention by https://social.golemwire.com/golemwire/p/1781275542.416093 notification in my snac server

                                                                                                        [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                                                                                        @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                                                                                        It's been four months since I brought up We're Dreaming using and I'm really liking how well the instance has been running. Maintenance has been easy. I started on 2.90-dev and have gone through three upgrades which were all boring (aka easy).

                                                                                                        snac is rather awesome software. It's lightweight, exceedingly fast and just works.

                                                                                                        Thanks @grunfink@comam.es (and other contributors to the project).


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                                                                                                          [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                                                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                          @lisamelton@mastodon.social

                                                                                                          At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.

                                                                                                          ... Snac's Not A Crappie.

                                                                                                          Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

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                                                                                                            [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                            @grunfink@comam.es
                                                                                                            " does not store nor cache media from other instances."
                                                                                                            Thank goodness. I tried running other fediverse servers and with just one account I was getting gigs of cache. Snac shines here.

                                                                                                              OCTADE boosted

                                                                                                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                                              I've just published version 2.85 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                                              Quoted posts are now shown.

                                                                                                              Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

                                                                                                              Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

                                                                                                              Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

                                                                                                              Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

                                                                                                              Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

                                                                                                              Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

                                                                                                              Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

                                                                                                              https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                                              If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.