jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Site description
These are the voyag... uh, things I post about.
Admin email
jrollans@gmail.com
Admin account
@jrollans@jrollans.com

Search results for tag #snac

[?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
@mookie@weredreaming.com

@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social I’ve been using markdown for notes for a while now. I use @joplinapp@mastodon.social instead of vim+bat. Markdown also works great in which I run this instance on.

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    [?]Samuel [he/him] » 🌐
    @samuel@social.nihil.ws

    Since I moved my instance to a low power ARM machine I’ve been meaning to improve the overall experience with simple caching.

    I remembered @stefano@bsd.cafe wrote a really nice short article on how he did with nginx.

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

    Definitely an improvement! Even more convenient to set up with deploy.

      [?]rtyler » 🌐
      @rtyler@buoyantdata.social

      I am really liking the responsiveness of .

      Predictably the resource utilization is dramatically different than Mastodon.

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        [?]klopo » 🌐
        @klopo@super.egois.org

        so looooongggg


        Alt...snac

          [?]Nils Weisensee » 🌐
          @nw@social.weisensee.me

          Looks like I cannot publish posts with media attachments on my instance. Known issue?

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            [?]Menel :xmpp: » 🌐
            @menel@snikket.de

            @nw@social.weisensee.me
            No, should work



            Test Media attachment

            Alt...Test Media attachment

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              [?]Martin » 🌐
              @martin@social.mdosch.de

              My profile (powered by ) is now also available via with an domain: http://social.wyuqrpau3c2oqihxolonftrdeqwoqbscrzyeonwgqpocwm2iu2djlkad.onion/martin

              No idea how well that works or whether this makes any sense. 😂

                [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                @octade@soc.octade.net

                @lisamelton@mastodon.social

                At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.

                ... Snac's Not A Crappie.

                Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

                  [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                  @mookie@weredreaming.com

                  I posted about Nintendo achievements and then went to shower.

                  I come out to see that the marvelous @lisamelton@mastodon.social gave it a boost! Thank you Lisa!

                  Then I went to check on my VPS and it is showing:

                  load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.05

                  New instance survived a Lisa boost. Yay! (Lisa Melton Boost Certified)


                    [?]sirtao » 🌐
                    @sirtao@social.sirtao.it

                    I'm currently running by @grunfink@comam.es on a Raspberry Pi Zero2. Works wonderfully.
                    It's extremely easy to setup, at the price of being a bit limited on the webUI. But that does not seem to be an issue in your case(nor it's in mine).

                    CC: @phanpy@hachyderm.io

                      [?]Nils Weisensee » 🌐
                      @nw@social.weisensee.me

                      Alright, looks like 797 of you made it over. I also found that decided that seeing follower counts isn't good for me or others, and thus won't display it on profiles. Not sure I like my software to make mental health decisions for me. Maybe is worth another look after all.

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                        [?]Nordnick 🌐 » 🌐
                        @nick@hhmx.de

                        @nw@ioc.exchange

                        You may want to have a look on and .

                        You can also install on a shared hosting (classic environment). Did this for testing some years ago.

                        My own project isn't ready for the stage yet.

                        @phanpy@hachyderm.io

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                          [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                          @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                          @openbsd@billboard.bsd.cafe Test post from my personal server.

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                            [?]No.15 » 🌐
                            @forgetpassword@snac.bsd.cafe

                            nicolium works pretty nicely with a snac, I prefer it more than elk only after a day of usage
                            Thanks @mkljczk@fediverse.pl


                              [?]Irfan Kitsune-sama » 🌐
                              @shiro@social.kitsunes.qzz.io

                              Hello world! 👋
                              If you see this handle and domain looks that belongs to mine, that's because I just recently installed snac2 software in Alpine Linux Docker on my potato 2GB RAM laptop. I hope this should work well without any issues although I didn't have any VPSes for relaying in case of downtime yet 😅

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                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                Hi. I'm wild-guessing, but I think that like a third of instances run on .

                                  [?]gosha » 🌐
                                  @gosha@merveilles.town

                                  Do I know anyone running on ?

                                    [?]sirtao » 🌐
                                    @sirtao@social.sirtao.it

                                    Oh, I was looking for both. So the update date is not standard but explicitly a feature?
                                    This, also, is good to know.

                                    Thanks

                                      [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                      Oh, I misunderstood that you wanted to know the gory details. Yes, marks edited messages by showing the update date next to the creation one.

                                        [?]sirtao » 🌐
                                        @sirtao@social.sirtao.it

                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                        Say, how are edits to posts managed? Is there any indication an edit happened, a way to see the original\previous versions or to add an explanation for the changes that's not just a "Edit: x-y-z" line?

                                        I suppose this might more a question for the tag tho'.

                                          [?]Alex » 🌐
                                          @alexh@c.im

                                          If you run a instance, you might also be interested in Mastoblaster by @stefano. I didn’t check it out yet

                                          mastoblaster.app/

                                            [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                            @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                            CW: Spicy take about Mastodon (specifically) [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                            If you really believe in the silly 250 character limit, then why the heck is everyone posting "3/12" continuation threads?

                                            Either the limit is a good idea, and nobody should post multi-part toots, or its a dumb idea, and should be retired (in favor of a ~6k post limit). One or the other. Cut the crap, already.

                                            I'd 100x rather see long posts shortened with a "See more" button than yet another toot that ends with "1/" 🤦🏻‍♂️

                                            Forcing people to create threads just to get their thought across is terrible UX, and I'm tired of being diplomatic about it.

                                            #Mastodon #GoToSocial #GtS #snac #fediverse

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                                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                              I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.78 of , the simple, minimalistic 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 useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


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                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.70 of , the simple, minimalistic 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 useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

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

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                                                  [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

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

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