https://justine.smithies.me.uk/#

I also noticed that all the admin tabs at the top of the snac admin page are all open taking up screen real estate.
I'm not complaining merely poiting out some of my findings and there is probably good reason that I don't know about why these work they way they do.

It does seem to be running an older version, so it could be caused by the same issue that's blocking it from connecting to #snac:

```bash
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.sdf.org |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.1.25"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL fosstodon.org |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.5.3"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.bsd.cafe |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.5.3"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.social |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.6.0-nightly.2025-12-09"
rld@Intrepid:~$

The dev on the matrix chat said that snac only supported the v1 api and that Tokodon defaults to v2, but should fall back to v1, but that might be broken? It could be that mastodon.sdf.org is running too old a version of mastodon for #Tokodon to talk to??
Hopefully the bug will get fixed. XD

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513147

Well, ok. It looks like a phone app, has no title bar, and the scrollbars are typical horrible phone-style scrollbars, but it works.

#Tokodon just gave me a server error trying to authenticate to snac. :/

CC: @AnachronistJohn@zia.io @jlw_the_jobber@polymaths.social

This is not the manual; man pages snac(1) (user manual), snac(5) (formats) and snac(8) (administrator manual) are what you are looking for.

THIS
IS
THE
WAY
!!!

#ThisIsTheWay #SomeoneGetsIt #Documentation #snac

#snac itself is remarkably chill and old-fashioned. :D

I had no idea that #snac has stopped working with Lemmy and NodeBB groups. I'll take a look at it.

The issue below was caused because this idiot aka me forgot to rebuild snac under FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE so the compatibility package is not required.

WOW ! The only jail I had a problem with was my #snac jail. It refused to run up quoting this error ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypto.so.30" not found, required by "snac"
I found a fix which is you have to install compat14x-amd compatibility files so stuff that relies on older libs can still run.
#FreeBSD

#FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #snac #snac2

The #illumosCafe #snac instance has been upgraded to 2.85

#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeAnnouncements

I won't be back in the USA until next week, and did not travel with any laptops, so it's not that I'm ignoring that there is a new version of snac, but I won't be able to do much about it for the time being.

I created the following Trac issue for myself and if any other MacPorts' users or developers may be wondering what's up:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/73294

#snac #MacPorts #OmbraFestival #BCN #ImNotLazyImJustConstrainedBeyondMostOthersComprehension

Moderation, on snac, is necessarily less comprehensive than on Mastodon, and consequently, it becomes much more difficult to handle issues with it. Reports as understood on Mastodon do not exist, and as a result, the outcome might be detrimental even to other instances.

That being said, if you have a community with a small number of users (although the number of users is relatively important, given that the largest FediMeteo instance has over 1200 cities/users) but, especially, if they are trusted, you can go with snac. If you need a more complete solution, perhaps it may not be the best solution (yet). I tried Friendica and I like it, but not enough to have a clear opinion on how it performs with larger communities.

Mastodon, once you understand how it works, is not complicated to maintain, but, like all stacks, it needs to be fully understood to avoid problems (e.g., cleanup, etc.).

@stesnac Hello from Canada,

I am grateful for all the work you put into your BSD cafe community.

As an outside observer,

your example and public decisions have answered much of my fediverse questions, except this one :

Were you to start your BSD Cafe community today, and decided to choose only one fediverse program to run,

Do you think SNAC would be enough to satisfy your community members, instead of using Mastodon ?

That's my question.

Here's some extra context :

I don't want to run Mastodon as it seems the technical aspects are beyond my abilities.

I have learning-curve fatigue the more I looked into setting up and then maintaining Mastodon.

I'm still considering Friendica, simply because I can turn RSS feeds into fediverse usernames, which appear in the Local Friendica timeline.

Take away my RSS requirement,

Then SNAC seems like it's enough.

| #SNAC #BSDCafe

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been upgraded to 2.85

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

@smallcircles @nathan @davidrevoy @dansup @index @Affekt @ploum

I think it makes sense for Pixelfed to only display images, but I do think it should be a (per-account-followed) setting and also mentioned in the onboarding that the user is only getting photo posts, rather than the entire "picture" of the fediverse, if you'll forgive the awkward diction/pun.

As someone who uses #Pixelfed, #Mastodon, #GoToSocial, and #snac, I appreciate the slightly different takes on the fediverse that these different applications provide.

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Also how would Snac perform in a vmm virtual machine using only 1 CPU compared to being in a multi core CPU jail on FreeBSD ??

I've got this idea to spin up OpenBSD on an i5-10505 based PC with 32Gb ram and I want to run the following services which are currently hosted on my FreeBSD server here using Bastille jails for each service.

I have a reverse proxy, nginx for web, git and cgit in another, Syncthing, Radicale. So 5 jails in total. The questions I have are wouold you try run all of those on base OpenBSD or use vmm for each like I do with bastille ?
Also how would #Snac perform in a vmm virtual machine using only 1 CPU compared to being in a multi core CPU jail on FreeBSD ??

The FreeBSD server has a i7-4790 (8) @ 3.60 GHz with 16Gb ram
The OpenBSD machine has a i5-10505 (6) @ 3.2 - 4.6 GHz with 32Gb ram.

Don't ask me why I'm considering this please. #RunBSD

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/