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.
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
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.
@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).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
Ihr könnt das auch haben, wenn ihr wollt 😉
https://oliverhartmann.net/blog/
#snac2 #snac
Ihr könnt das auch haben, wenn ihr wollt 😉
(https://oliverhartmann.net/blog/)[Blogbeitrag dazu]
#snac2 #
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 have less followers than you, but I run this #snac instance (and two more) in a VPS with only 1 CPU.
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
I guess it's not fully compatible. But I would like to know what others did with it.
#fedifetcher #snac2 #snac #askfedi #selfhosting #tinyfedi #tinyweb
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.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
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.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
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/