littlefedi, snac, openbook, are innovating.

All three address different points that Dave Winer is identifying, and all three 'are' the little guys.

| #littlefedi #snac #openbook

#snac #snac2

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

#FediMeteoUpdates #snac2

The #illumosCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.96

#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.96

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #snac2

Accounts can be marked as cool; anytime a cool account posts something, a notification will be sent.

Fixed an issue in Direct Messages sent from the people page; these posts didn't explicitly mention the recipient, and that confused some implementations.

Fixed crash when sending an empty EmojiReact.

HTTP requests can now be forced to use IPv6 by setting the force_ipv6_requests configuration directive to true in server.json.

Fixed a socket buffering issue under OpenIndiana (contributed by aleteoryx).

Mastodon API: Added missing requested_by field in the relationships entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), implemented the followers entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), use Mastodon's RFC3339 format for markers (contributed by nowster), fixed posts with muted words not being filtered out, fixed editing of media alt texts.

Tweaked HTML to avoid elinks complaining about a missing '#top' fragment.

Fixed a bug that made deleting the notification email address impossible.

RSS timelines are now cached because fuckers hammer for them continuously (probably AI crap bots).

Added information to README.md on how to build and install on Illumos / OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 (contributed by aleteoryx).

Updated Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech translations (contributed by koru, daltux, pmjv).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

@paul@paulwilde.uk Many thanks. That wasn't immediately obviously when you're as lazy and impetuous as myself ! #snac is yet another lovely open source software package for ActivityPub.

OK So I have #Littlefedi running in a #FreeBSD Bastille jail. I can now toot, DM and follow plus become followed. I do have a couple of issues like I followed a gotosocial account back that followed me and it failed constantly retrying for some reason? Also I tried to follow my #Snac account yet it sits at requested and no notification on snac. I'm sure with @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe help I'll iron these issues out in the coming week?

I've been on the fence about hosting my own #fediverse account for a while now, mainly because of the insane hardware requirements.

I've considered pleroma/akkoma for a while, but i don't know the first thing about elixir and their docs are not the most clear. I've been really tempted by #GoToSocial, but #snac's easy install & general simplicity made me take the plunge.

@grunfink@comam.es what does it mean when mentions don't turn into links? (Maybe tags still work... #Snac #Snac2 )

@grunfink

Is it possible to have my snac instance use TOR to federate *and* to have it available over clearweb at the same time?

Would this mean that my instance pulls data from other instances using TOR, but other instances would only use the clearweb to pull data from me, so they could be blocked at the national level?

#snac #snac2

At first after using snac (coming from mastodon for example),
you feel like the UI is too minimal. Then you realize it's not
minimal at all, it's just getting out of your way.

You focus on the messages and not on the interface.

snac(8) states that

Emoji values can also be URLs to image files; in this case, they will not be substituted in the post content, but added to the 'tag' array as an ActivityPub standard 'Emoji' object (it's recommendable that the Emoji key be enclosed in colons for maximum compatibility with other ActivityPub implementations, like e.g. :happydoggo:). These images can be served from an external source or from the static directory of the instance admin.

{
    ...
    "nixos": "nixos-logo.png",
}

#snac

In snac ...

If someone I follow "likes" content, is that enough to
bring it into my timeline?

(content that seemingly should not show up on my
page.)

@nowster That's a #snac bug. The marker should be returned as a Datetime, documented here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/datetime-format/#datetime. Based on the error message it looks like it's returning $milliseconds.$nanoseconds since the epoch.

I've reported this as https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/659.

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

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#snacAnnounces

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

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/