I apologise for the spamming of NYC*BUG toots earlier. It was caused by this Muppet forgetting to rebuild my #Snac instance against the newly updated #FreeBSD 15.1 .

Yeah probs because I had forgotten to rebuild #Snac against the new 15.1 install. Sorry.

CC: @losttourist@social.chatty.monster

OOPS! Nearly forgot to make clean on my #Snac install and rebuild against the new #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. 🤭

I've been trying this mini snac instance for a while now, and perhaps someone with more #Fediverse knowledge can enlighten me about a couple of things:
For example, I'm still not sure when or why replies or the parent-post of a reply show up. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

If I'm following a person, their post will show up for sure, but sometimes not the post it's replying to. In this case I can still follow a link back to the original instance. (Which is a way of "getting around" in and of itself.)

I think part of this might be because snac is conservative in terms of caching, whereas Mastodon is apparently very aggressive about it. So while snac is very lightweight (which is its main point) on Mastodon it would feel less insular. Hashtags on a semi-large Mastodon instance can be used to see a lot of posts from people you don't follow, but on this snac instance it's almost pointless to filter by hashtag.
Conversely, I have no idea who might be able to see this post here, just because they follow the Fediverse hashtag or so...?

I assume one way to get more input might be to follow more people. But then the feed would be way too busy. So perhaps an alternative would be to create a separate account on the same instance that follows a ton of people, which would cause the snac server to retrieve their posts (or know about the server?), and then I guess that should improve things somewhat even on this account, making hashtags more usable and seeing more replies or reply parent-posts.

As I said, I'd love if anyone with more knowledge about the Fediverse or Activity Pub etc. could enlighten me a bit.

#fedi #snac #activitypub #mastodon

@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 #Snac handled quote posts.

#snac2

It's been four months since I brought up We're Dreaming using #snac 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).

#snac2 #fediverse

what's a good fediverse android app that would make it easier for someone coming from things like Facebook/Instagram/etc that works with snac2? I want to try to get my wife to use my snac instance too and let her explore the fediverse some, but she might not like the web interface that I use.

I've used Tusky before, and I know that works with snac, but I'm not sure if there might be some better options with a good, user-friendly UI. If there's anything that shows "Favorites" as a thumbs up, or Boosts as "Share", might make for an easier transition.

#snac #snac2 #android #recommendations

Hi. Sorry, I didn't try myself nor have read about any successful nor failed stories about migrating from pixelfed to #snac.

Boosting your post, just in case anyone out there knows something.

CC: @max@manmachine.me

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.78 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

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

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.70 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

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.

Sysadmin extraordinaire Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe) has written this great, concise article on how to tune #nginx to improve #snac performance while serving media like images or videos.

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