In short, Fediverse Report says that launching Threads as part of the Fediverse is basically dead in the water. They have decided not to pursue it in 2026, and nobody is actively developing it anymore.

Well, good riddance, I guess. It was fun before it even started. Many of us saw this coming. I would not be surprised if they phase it out completely over the next few years. The Fediverse was never a real priority for them, it was just marketing hype all along. Just like some open source LARPing from the Big Tech corporates.

Direct quote:

"Threads’ integration with the fediverse is on maintenance mode, says head of Threads Connor Hayes in an interview by Alex Heath. Hayes said about the fediverse: ““It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out”. In October 2023, Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with Alex Heath, who asked him about decentralisation and open protocols, with Zuckerberg saying he “always believed in this stuff“. With the fediverse integration for Threads now in maintenance mode, this must surely be a big blow for Zuckerberg’s belief in decentralised social networking.

Threads’ integration with the fediverse was never popular, especially from the side of Threads. In January 2025 the mastodon.social knew about 25k Threads accounts which had turned on federation. But while that number is already low considering the total number of Threads users, the interest in actually following an account on Mastodon from Threads was even lower: in January 2025, only 800 Threads users followed at least one account on mastodon.social. Threads deliberately made it difficult to follow fediverse accounts, and later updates deprioritised the fediverse feed even more. Regardless, it is not particularly hard to understand why a platform that now boasts about having 400M monthly active users is not putting in much effort to maintain a complex system that only a few thousand people at best make use of."

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/

#FediverseThreads #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Protocols #Platforms #SocialMedia #Mastodon

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Fediverse Threads marketing photo with post-like bubble shared to Fediverse

I'm a big fan of Sill, a service that connects to your Mastodon account in read-only mode (and your ATProto account, if you're so inclined), and then sends you a daily newsletter with popular links! (i.e. that had lots of reboosts among your follows)

https://sill.social

Now that's my beloved free software

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Sill

Here's v0.3.0 of ties, the federated bookmark manager, with a new light mode, flexible bookmark editing tools, and a critical security fix!

If you're using ties, please update at your earliest convenience. If you're not using it yet, now's a good time to try it out!

https://github.com/raffomania/ties/releases/tag/v0.3.0

#fediverse #selfhosted #activitypub #rust #htmx

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Screenshot of the ties home screen, with one half of the image showing the light mode, and the other half the dark mode.

what years of being on the fediverse does to you

#tomodachilife #linux #fediverse #activitypub #bluesky #atproto

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Tomodachi Life screenshot of an upset Tux the Linux Penguin saying he doesn't really like thinking about decentralised social media

Loops, Pixelfed, Mastodon

#loops #pixelfed #mastodon #activitypub

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My homescreen on my iPhone showing 3 groups of notifications from Loops, Pixelfed and Mastodon

Being able to migrate your posts along with followers to other Pixelfed servers is something we need to do, and will be a priority after I ship the new release, and mobile app later this month.

I say to other Pixelfed servers, because I'm not aware of any other software that would support this, but I do plan to write a FEP so we can support full account migration between software!

#Pixelfed #AccountMigration #ActivityPub

All aboard the Fediverse Express! 🚂

🆕 security_risk_domains.csv

A list of Fediverse domains running software that is at least one year out of date or past its supported lifecycle, and may therefore contain known security vulnerabilities. This includes instances running outdated versions of Misskey, Mastodon, and other Fediverse software.

This list is separate from my other blocklists because these domains are included due to software security concerns, not content or user behavior. 😉

Of course, I have also updated block_spam_scam_users.csv. Your Misskey or Mastodon feed will be so much cleaner and clutter-free once you remove those repeating spam and scam users! 🥳

How to use:

1) Pick a source of your choice.

2) Copy and paste or download the file as a CSV (example, blocks.csv).

3) Upload and merge.

Sources:

GitHub: https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

GitLab: https://gitlab.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

GitFlic: https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse

As always, enjoy the Fediverse! 😇

#Mastodon #Misskey #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediBlock

Earlier today I attended the #ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce meeting!

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/blob/main/meetings/2026-08-19-interim-taskforce-meeting.md

It was my first time popping by, but I had a specific reason, namely a call to work on a specification for interaction controls based on various existing work. You may remember that I tried this before, earlier in the year, and it stalled due to a lack of time. So this time around I'm doing it during my work hours. Thanks @Lambo! 😉

Here's how I'm trying to get started: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/159#issuecomment-5348012095

Okay, so

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

According to resources linked in the #Mastodon docs, it seems that signature validation gets the entire #ActivityPub Actor (thus the `#main-key` which the server is supposed to ignore) and then within the Actor it gets the `publicKey` property.

Soooo back to the `#main-key` nomenclature, I guess

For reasons I cannot get into I will be adding Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online to my blocklist. Additionally, I am adding JoinMastodon.org including several sub-domains currently functioning under that domain, for example, demo.joinmastodon.org

#Mastodon #OnlineSafety #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@spraoi @gumnos @evan

I feel the hidden question of the #poll is: Given the #technology base exists, can you just code against it at will? I.e. the tech #ethics question is asked. Where on one end of the spectrum we find the techbro / fossbro, and on the other end of the spectrum we are still learning what we should have there as an alternative to make a social web be social and keep it that way. As "social web" technology by itself offers zero guarantee of that.

#SX #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

Decided to hop on https://fedihood.social and see what it's like. Seems like a fun concept! Those of you who feel comfortable joining totally should (you can use a pseudonymous acct if you like).

It seems to be largely lacking in users still. I would love to see this thing take off in a real way!

#tech #activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb

RE: https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-request-august/

🚨 UPDATE 18-Aug-2026 13:40 UTC+7 🚨
still urgently needed:
⏳ $97/$250 for groceries, $153 still needed to cover my monthly groceries. I really need food to survive.
⏳ $0/$218 for meds. Over seven months without medication now, traded for food just to survive. This has to stop.
⏳ ‼️$0/$125 for electricity, water, and internet -- past its 16 August deadline. I'm afraid they are going to cut off my water and internet again.‼️

$496 in total still needed this month.
Please support however you can. Sharing this also goes a long way.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

Thank you, thank you 🙂‍↕️💜

@mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaidspace @disability @edendestroyer @QuyetPawz @ellespeaks @frugalcoffee @actuallyadhd @autistics @wrzky@wrzky.com
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidspace #disability #poverty #helpfolkslive #mentalhealth #healthcare #chronicillness #neurodivergence #activism #activitypub #fedihelp #fediverse #disabilitycrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #emergencycrowdfund

We are now more than 300 users on #FediHood. The project is stable enough for me to invite you to try it.
It is a software running on #ActivityPub and using #OSM.
The idea? Discover people near you or all around the world, and filter by topic.
It doesn't use GPS, you pick the town. The app warns you if your city is too small and suggests a bigger one nearby. Bonus: it supports #E2EE DMs.

https://fedihood.social

Don't hesitate to share. Thank you!

Is it OK to write code that does new things on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Loops has developed it's own optimized server to server communication to support near real-time federation of latency sensitive activities, like Live stream chat messages.

I'm working on the draft FEP, and will share more details soon!

#Loops #LoopsDev #LiveStreaming #ActivityPub

RE: https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-request-august/

UPDATE 16-Aug-2026 16:25 UTC+7:
UPDATE 16-Aug-2026 16:25 UTC+7:

Deadline ASAP:
⏳ $99/$250 for groceries, $151 still needed to cover my monthly groceries. I really need food to survive.
⏳ $0/$218 for meds. Over seven months without medication now, traded for food just to survive. This has to stop.
⏳ $0/$125 for electricity, water, and internet

$494 in total still needed this month.
Any support is appreciated. Please boost so this reaches further than my feed.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

Thank you, thank you 🙂‍↕️💜

@mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaidspace @disability @edendestroyer @QuyetPawz @ellespeaks @frugalcoffee @actuallyadhd @autistics @wrzky@wrzky.com
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidspace #disability #poverty #helpfolkslive #mentalhealth #healthcare #chronicillness #neurodivergence #activism #activitypub #fedihelp #fediverse #disabilitycrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #emergencycrowdfund

I often see that question about the way I use #E2EE over #ActivityPub.
#FediHood and #HolosSocial do not use the end-to-end encryption #Mastodon is working on. They are going for MLS over ActivityPub. I use the Signal Protocol, already working between Holos and FediHood, which I both maintain. Once MLS is available, I'll happily switch.
But to be clear: it works perfectly with the Signal Protocol. The switch would only be for compatibility.

Can confirm that the MaW fediverse server properly broadcasts all public #ActivityPub activities it receives to every possibly interested inbox it knows, shoutout to @evan but for a moment before checking the activity details I was SCARED someone had logged into it and started asking about butts lol

Anyway XL and larger don't @ me

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From https:/dallawan minotaursatwork eu/ap/mawdev. Sent to hittps://activitypub.academy/users/eubecio_insaboth/inbox Update Question What's the best butt size? #EvanPoll #poll #butts #Buttsize 22:09:40

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Activity details showing actor and attribution

Me? Hiding? Not a chance.

I couldn't hide even if I tried, because members of a scam group called "Gaza Verified" have already DOXed me twice (2x). They published my full name, home address, phone number, and email. They are also the ones sending me death threats and trying to ruin my reputation.

Instead of letting them bully me into silence, I decided to stand my ground. Yes, my name is Adam Howard, and I live in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Anyone can easily find me on Google. I've even shared my voting ballot to prove my progressive record. I am not hiding, I am not anonymous, and I always use the same screen name — Linux or LinuxBSD, depending on availability.

Now they are accusing me of "ban evasion." That is ridiculous. Participating on a decentralized network is not avoiding a ban. If that were true, the scam group Gaza Verified would be guilty of it themselves.

It's the classic "rules for you, but not for me" attitude. While they waste time playing games. 🙄

I am actually trying to fix the system. I have posted three (3) suggestions on GitHub to help Mastodon users and admins escape abuse and make the internet safer. I bet the people complaining are the exact ones who don't want the internet or the Fediverse to be safer.

Suggestion 1:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40172

Suggestion 2:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40116

Suggestion 3:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40117

Of course, there is also my general public block list. One of the reasons it keeps growing is because that scam group keeps evading.
https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

#FediBlock #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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A photo of a mail in ballot for the democratic 2026 mid term primaries.

Me? Hiding? Not a chance.

I couldn't hide even if I tried, because members of a scam group called "Gaza Verified" have already DOXed me twice (2x). They published my full name, home address, phone number, and email. They are also the ones sending me death threats and trying to ruin my reputation.

Instead of letting them bully me into silence, I decided to stand my ground. Yes, my name is Adam Howard, and I live in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Anyone can easily find me on Google. I've even shared my voting ballot to prove my progressive record. I am not hiding, I am not anonymous, and I always use the same screen name — Linux or LinuxBSD, depending on availability.

Now they are accusing me of "ban evasion." That is ridiculous. Participating on a decentralized network is not avoiding a ban. If that were true, the scam group Gaza Verified would be guilty of it themselves.

It's the classic "rules for me, but not for you" attitude. While they waste time playing games,

I am actually trying to fix the system. I have posted three (3) suggestions on GitHub to help Mastodon users and admins escape abuse and make the internet safer. I bet the people complaining are the exact ones who don't want the internet or the Fediverse to be safer.

Suggestion 1:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40172

Suggestion 2:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40116

Suggestion 3:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40117

Of course, there is also my general public block list. One of the reasons it keeps growing is because that scam group keeps evading.
https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

#FediBlock #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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A photo of a mail in ballot for the democratic 2026 mid term primaries.

#FediHood keeps growing, and many bugs have been fixed thanks to your feedback.

Federation now works smoothly over #ActivityPub. The Nearby and Discover timelines work as intended, and push notifications are available. #E2EE still needs work to support several browsers or devices.

It is a good start. You can join this new fediverse software at https://fedihood.social

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14

Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a

All aboard the Fediverse Express! 🚂 Once more, I have updated my public block lists.

Changes include:

block_spam_scam_users.csv: +166 new accounts added (from suspicious activity scans between August 2025 and August 2026).

my_account_blocks.csv: +125 new accounts added to the general block list.

my_domains_blocks.csv: +32 new domains added to the general domain list.

How to use:

1) Pick a source of your choice.

2) Copy and paste or download the file as a CSV (example, blocks.csv).

3) Upload and merge.

Sources:

GitHub: https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

GitLab: https://gitlab.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

GitFlic: https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse

As always, enjoy the Fediverse! 😇

#FediBlock #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Xenomorph

<https://git.keinpfusch.net/loweel/xenomorph> @uriel

― via <https://keinpfusch.net/software>

"Un server ActivityPub piccolo piccolo, concepito per funzionare anche su macchine molto piccole. Ispirato a snac, ma scritto in Ada/SPARK con l’obiettivo di ottenere un software più robusto, verificabile e sicuro."

"A tiny ActivityPub server designed to run even on very small machines. Inspired by snac, but written in Ada/SPARK with the goal of making the software more robust, verifiable, and secure."

#AI #ActivityPub #Ada #SPARK

#FediHood is in beta and the core is there, with more of you joining to talk with people near you, fully over #ActivityPub.

Pick your location and the app notices when a town is too small and suggests a larger one nearby, so you stay at city level, never exact coordinates. DMs are end-to-end encrypted and push notifications work.

A project like this only grows if the people using it carry it, so share it if you want it to exist.

https://fedihood.social

Thank you for your support

GNOME is now on PeerTube! Follow @gnome@tube.kockatoo.org on your Peertube instace (or any other Fediverse instance!) to get all the good stuff. You can already watch our recent GUADEC videos there!

Become a friend of GNOME to support future GUADECs 👉️ https://donate.gnome.org

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedi

My advice to new activitypub devs:

- be bold: ship what big tech won't.
- consent first: opt in, never opt out.
- keep evolving: your v1 federation code will be wrong, and that's fine.
- federate the future: interop over lock in, every time.

8 years in and I still come back to these.

#activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb #builders

#FediHood and #HolosSocial, two separate #Fediverse projects (that I maintain), can now send each other #E2EE DMs, fully over #ActivityPub.

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Screenshot of an encrypted DM conversation in Holos. A banner reads "Messages are end-to-end encrypted", and each message shows a padlock next to its timestamp.

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Screenshot of the same conversation in FediHood, showing an "Encrypted" label at the top and a padlock next to each message.

Hello World

Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse

RE: https://mediaformat.org/2026/07/nuages-says-hello/

Announcing it here publicly for the first time!

I've been building a general purpose activitypub pwa.

Follow @nuages for official updates!

#activityPubAPI #ActivityPub

wakest ⁂ boosted

Nuages » 🌐 2026-07-11
@nuages@mediaformat.org

Hello World

Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse

#FediHood should be easy to use, with a very simple interface. It fully uses #ActivityPub and is compatible with the #Mastodon API (tested with #Fedilab). It will of course bring extra endpoints related to how it works. The project reuses the combined work from #HolosSocial and #PawFed.

Here are some screenshots of the Web UI.

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FediHood's map set to an 8 km radius: an interactive map showing two count badges, each marking how many people are in that spot.

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FediHood's Nearby feed: a distance slider set to 10 km, then a few posts from people close by, each with a time, a city, a distance and a topic tag such as Sport or Events.

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FediHood's compose screen: a large message box, then four options: Visibility (who can see the post), Reach (how far it shows in Discover), Topic (its category) and Language (what you write in), plus Add image and Publish buttons.

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The topic list in FediHood: Chat, Meet people, Events, Help, Buy & sell, Transport, Local news, Politics, Sport and Culture.

Great day at #Fedicon yesterday. I met lots of new people from the #ActivityPub community. I've always thought that #XMPP and the #Fediverse are ideologically well-aligned, and that our developer communities should talk to each other more. In that regard, it was a big success.

Excited to announce that @fedipub (formerly known as Federails), the Rails engine for #ActivityPub that powers (amongst other things) @manyfold, has been awarded a grant in the latest round from @NGIZero. I’ll be building community, docs, rounding out features, and ideally making it usable in non-Rails Ruby apps too!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Fedipub/

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-07

Servers

- Vernissage v1.42.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.14
- Socialhome v0.24.0
- Ktistec v3.10.0
- Mbin v1.10.1
- Mastodon v4.6.5
- Hubzilla v11.4
- snac v1.94
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.1
- PeerTube v8.2.4
- tootik v0.24.0
- NodeBB v4.14.8
- Wafrn v2026.08.01
- PieFed v1.7.10
- appy v0.6.0
- Lemmy Development Update July 2026
- Discovery Week 2026: What we learned, and what we’re doing next (Mastodon)
- What PieFed’s “social credit system” actually does
- Prismo: Federated link aggregation powered by ActivityPub

Clients

- Fedilab v3.43.1
- chan-fe v0.2.0
- Rocinante v1.2.2

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.0.0
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.11 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.2.2

Protocol

- FEP-d471: Endorsements

Articles

- DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fba46-e7be-7ee0-ae8b-8a2a8daec431

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 #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Hashtag following also allow URLs to RSS feeds of ActivityPub objects (like e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/ThankYouTuesday).

Users can now configure a webhook to receive an HTTP POST for every notification. This can be useful for implementing bots that react to activities, like autorepliers, chatbots or interactive textual games (see snac(1) for more information).

The number of pending follow confirmations is shown next to the "people" link.

Faster performance metrics (contributed by dandelions).

Improved lowercasing in hashtags (contributed by postscriptum).

A search-by-url tweak for implementations that return 200 for invalid webfinger queries (e.g. piefed).

Mastodon API: added follow confirmation endpoints, fixed collisions in attachment file names.

Fixed potential crashes in attachment uploads.

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Notifications are now shown in a more compact way (i.e. all reactions are shown just above your post, instead of repeating the post ad nauseam for every reaction).

New command-line option unmute to, well, no-longer-mute an actor.

The private timeline now includes an approximate mark between new posts and "already seen" ones.

Fixed a spurious 404 error in the instance root URL for some configurations.

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

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song The Answers to the Questions by #Christabell and #DavidLynch.