@ilyess well, it seemed more or less like the straightforward choice at the time, since the other alternatives (Email, Fediverse, IRC, etc) were either too heavy / complicated or not federating at all. But yes, since that, I started hosting a few other services for myself: file server, Git repository, Tor node (not an exit proxy) and my website.

I'm not done yet. I want to reboot the idea of hosting my own part of the fediverse via a #snac instance, or some other communication means. The software behind https://peercalls.com sounds nice.

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Working on free software is sometimes great because you find people that really care. Men and women that care for others, that weave social fabric, that altruistically share their time in benefits of others.

Stefano (like many others) gives his time as a gift for others to enjoy. He helped me make #snac what it is now.

If you had given up when my software was in its infancy, I would probably gave up and left it unfinished.

So, I dedicate my #ThankyouTuesday back to you, Stefano.

Fortunately, @voron 's site on snac themes still has this screenshot, which I'm happy to share.

This response from the author of snac motivated me to continue, study, and appreciate this fantastic software for the Fediverse.
Snac is an example of true internet democracy: it runs everywhere and allows anyone to have their own autonomous, personal space in the Fediverse.

"Don't despair or quit", says an author who cares. And the Fediverse cares about them.

For today's #ThankYouTuesday, I want to thank grunfink - @grunfink - for the excellent work they do, quietly and with passion. I suggest that if you think snac is a good idea and you have the means, you offer them at least a coffee.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #snac2 #Fediverse

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A screenshot of a social media thread. The first post is by "Stefano BSD Cafe" and describes a problem where threads hang when boosting, liking, and posting messages in a short amount of time. The reply is from "The Real Grunfink", who says they have a vague idea of the issue and will push a fix soon.

My #snac caddyfile https://ffuentes.sdf.org/communication/2025/08/23/my-snac-config-activitypub-instance-with-caddy.html @grunfink

CC: @evan@cosocial.ca

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

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html code in C - in a personal fork of snac by grunfink

Fixed my fedi_slurp scripts & documentation to work with #GotoSocial in addition to #snac (in theory it should work with plain old mastodon but I never tested)
https://code.lema.org/santiago/fedi_slurp

This goes through your fediverse bookmarks and adds them to your readeck instance or youtube watch list automatically. New release handles having several fediverse accounts (but only saved to one readeck instance / youtube watchlist).

http://gyptazy.com/fedi/gyptazy/

#mastodon #alternatives #fediverse #activitypub #customizing

#fediverse #activitypub

latest #Fedicat supports scheduling posts in the latest #Snac

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screenshot of a post composer with the publish later option toggled on and a date selected

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes

Here's something incredibly useless: a tool to convert your public #SNAC timeline into a #GopherProtocol tree.

https://codeberg.org/PurpleJillybeans/snac2gopher/src/branch/main

It's not very pretty at the moment but it *does* work. You can see it in action here:

SNAC: https://blog.n8fq.org/social/jillybeans
Gopher: gopher://lucifer.n8fq.org:70/1/phlog

@bjoern Yep, unfortunately. Reasons for switching to #snac ;)

Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!

The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python

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Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

#TooManyHobbiesTooLittleTime

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.

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