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

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[?]Jonathan Matthews »
@jonathanmatthews@fosstodon.org

What apps are folks using successfully with their instance? The last time I tried using it simply refused to work :-|

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

    I've just enjoyed this fascinating conversation between @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live and @stefano@bsd.cafe, where the latter explains how he planted the seed of the incredibly friendly, great and extense community that is the BSD Cafe. Open source, owning you own data and the importance of interconnecting people is talked about here. Of course, Stefano also talked about https://fedimeteo.com/, his great project that makes weather information available to the whole Fediverse; this makes me, as the developer of (one of the pieces of software that operates Fedimeteo), also a bit proud of being a part of.

    As Stefano says, "you can't describe passion", but you can feel it from his words.

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      [?]stu »
      @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

      Is there a way to save settlement in ?

      @grunfink@comam.es

        [?]r1w1s1 »
        @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

        Hi Feedverse!!!

        Big thanks to Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe),
        our dedicated admin keeping BSD.cafe running smoothly.
        Stefano is always such a positive presence, and his work
        is the foundation of our feedverse home.

        And a huge shoutout to The Real Grunfink (@grunfink@comam.es),
        creator of the excellent server.
        Snac truly embodies the KISS and minimalist principles – simple,
        efficient, and powerful software that makes the Fediverse better.

        These two contribute significantly to our online space.
        If you value their efforts and the spirit of their work,
        consider supporting them financially.
        Every bit helps keep these vital parts of the decentralized web thriving.

        Thank you, Stefano and Grunfink!


          [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
          @santi@go.lema.org

          @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe I have this option enabled so maybe others can see my followers …but since I migrated to I see everyone else at 0 / 0 / 0 in my app (Mona).

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

            Hi, main developer here. Follow metrics are disabled by default, but you can enable them from your user settings.

            CC: @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

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              [?]stu »
              @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

              Hi @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe 👋

              Just curious on how your profile on # is showing following and followers?

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                [?]stu »
                @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                Good morning 🌞 universe and fediverse.

                Hope everyone has a great day today 🙏.

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                  [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  For those who want to watch yesterday's live chat on Fireside Fedi, here’s the link to the full video. We talked about the BSD systems, FediMeteo, snac, the BSD Cafe, the Open Source world, the Fediverse and... spaghetti

                  video.firesidefedi.live/w/vSo8

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

                    For today's , I want to thank @gyptazy@gyptazy.com and his cool project BoxyBSD, for providing me with a small OpenBSD VPS that works like a charm and that is helping me with the development of .

                      [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                      @santi@go.lema.org

                      Testing post with four images from the web UI.

                        [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                        @santi@go.lema.org

                        Hm, so this works from the web UI.

                        Anyone else using + a native client on Android or iOS has this issue where adding several images as attachments only keeps one ?

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                          [?]daltux »
                          @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                          Testando envio ao de quatro imagens pelo tal qual exemplo de @santi@go.lema.org

                          Software livre. Sociedade livre. gnu. org

                          Alt...Software livre. Sociedade livre. gnu. org

                          O desenho de uma cabeça de um gnu, bovídeo africano, em um círculo amarelo no meio de um fundo vermelho e com os dizeres gnu.org - eu apoio software livre.

                          Alt...O desenho de uma cabeça de um gnu, bovídeo africano, em um círculo amarelo no meio de um fundo vermelho e com os dizeres gnu.org - eu apoio software livre.

                          Desenho colorido com crianças enquadradas em molduras que parecem espertofones sinistros, preocupadas ao trocarem um papel. No outro lado, mais claro, crianças com semblante contente trocam ícones que remetem a amor e felicidade. Ao centro, lê-se: vamos lutar por um mundo com liberdade de software. FSF. gnu.org

                          Alt...Desenho colorido com crianças enquadradas em molduras que parecem espertofones sinistros, preocupadas ao trocarem um papel. No outro lado, mais claro, crianças com semblante contente trocam ícones que remetem a amor e felicidade. Ao centro, lê-se: vamos lutar por um mundo com liberdade de software. FSF. gnu.org

                          Executar, estudar, aprimorar, compartilhar. FSF, gnu.org

                          Alt...Executar, estudar, aprimorar, compartilhar. FSF, gnu.org

                            [?]Jonathan Matthews »
                            @jonathanmatthews@fosstodon.org

                            What apps are folks using successfully with their instance? The last time I tried using it simply refused to work :-|

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                              [?]stu »
                              @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                              Thanks @stefano@bsd.cafe for the hook-up on the instance!!!

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                                [?]Puffy Fan »
                                @Puffy4Life@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                Using app for seems to functional identically to a Mastodon account, has anyone had an issues for tusky with snac?

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                                  [?]Vintage Tech on SNAC »
                                  @vintagetech@snac.bsd.cafe

                                  Hey guys 👋 it's me , I finally got access to my account

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

                                    Hi, Santiago. I've checked the code and found that there is a glitch in 's Mastodon API, and the "follow requests must be approved" boolean is not returned correctly (as the 'locked' boolean).

                                    I'll fix it, thanks for reporting.

                                      [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                      @santi@go.lema.org

                                      @MonaApp@mastodon.social When posting to followers only in Mona I see this warning saying anyone can follow me. This is not the case as I now require approval of followers.

                                      Is there any specific API endpoint that Mona uses that needs to be implemented for this to go away ? I now use by @grunfink@comam.es as my instance server.

                                      Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

                                      Alt...Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

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

                                        Hi. I don't have access to any Apple phone, so I'm unable to do any test, but I of course would like it to work as better as possible.

                                        I've heard that an app called Mona works acceptably, but I have no idea. I also heard that an iOs app named tooot works; this one also has an Android version, I did some shallow tests with it and it seems to work.

                                        Personally, on my mobile phone, I use 's web UI from Android Firefox, and it works perfectly (in fact, for me, if something has an acceptable WWW suport, I install no mobile app, but I'm somewhat of an unfrozen caveman).

                                          [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                          @santi@go.lema.org

                                          Still don’t understand what does exactly on my 2 cores when I reload the timeline. Same happens with 4 or 32 threads. Except with 4 the jobs pile up.

                                          No visible disk i/o. Network i/o is handled well with increased timeout. If I don’t use my mobile app cpu cools down. But every load from app causes high load for many minutes, even after load ended.

                                          Maybe I should test this locally instead of cheap OVH VPS ?

                                          Alt...Shellfish iOS shows a terminal

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

                                            Due to decades of experience per programmer, state-of-the-art development processes and a diligent QA department, you can write /etc/hosts (or even /etc/passwd) in a post and let the verb be spread to the world.

                                            Not so in other platforms:

                                            https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack

                                              [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                              @santi@go.lema.org

                                              Migration to seems to be going well.

                                              Follows at 1209 of 1373
                                              Followers at 794 of (maybe 1k?) .

                                              I know it takes times and I will just wait & I suppose just retry the import.

                                              Old mastodon page shows old account still has 268 followers that have yet to migrate. Might just be dead accounts.

                                              Screenshot of old account at Masto.lema.org showing stats of post media storage qnd follows

                                              Alt...Screenshot of old account at Masto.lema.org showing stats of post media storage qnd follows

                                                [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                @santi@go.lema.org

                                                Otherwise migration was rather straightforward. I followed instructions from the man page

                                                What was more laborious was importing all the emojis. I had to resort to macros to build the emoji.json and a bunch of curl calls to get every image to destination server into the static folder of the admin user (me).

                                                Thanks again @grunfink@comam.es for

                                                  [?]Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                  @santiago@masto.lema.org

                                                  Next up I plan to migrate my personal mastodon instance (currently on Masto.host) to . No idea how it’s going to go though.

                                                  Anyone here did this particular migration ? I want to change my Fediverse account to be santi@go.lema.org because it’s kinda cool.

                                                  It would make more sense to use goto social with that subdomain but I like snac !

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                                                    [?]daltux »
                                                    @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                    Não fiz migração porque continuo paralelamente com :mastodon: @daltux@ayom.media, mas consta que dá, sim, pra migrar de para e vice-versa! 😎 :takeMyMoney:

                                                    CC: @santiago@masto.lema.org

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                                                      [?]Marek S. Ł. »
                                                      @marek@m5l.eu

                                                      Hello ! Let's see if the mentions work as expected by acknowledging some people that helped me get online:

                                                      Thanks @grunfink@comam.es for the server, @stefano@bsd.cafe for the blog posts that pointed me to it, @voron@snac.nya.pub for the theme and @manton@manton.org for motivating me with your book

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                                                        [?]daltux »
                                                        @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                        :fediverso: Atualizado o , servidor , para versão 2.75, pelo pacote :debian: snac2 do repositório bookworm-backports.

                                                        🇧🇷 Notei agora que há algumas strings novas, ainda sem tradução. Farei isso então!

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                                                          [?]ティージェーグレェ »
                                                          @teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                          My apologies for the delay.

                                                          I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.75 here:

                                                          https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28174

                                                          GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!

                                                          It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

                                                          Thanks to you, shtrophic and everyone else who helped make improvements for this release!



                                                            [?]fedicat »
                                                            @fedicat@pc.cafe

                                                            latest supports scheduling posts in the latest

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

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

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                                                              [?]FediMeteo »
                                                              @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                                              All the instances have been upgraded to 2.75


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                                                                [?]Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account) »
                                                                @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                                The instance has been upgaded to 2.75

                                                                BSDCafeServices

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

                                                                  Yes, releases are always clearly tagged. Anyway, I take special care to always have a master that is fully functional (modulo unexpected errors).

                                                                  Have a nice experience!

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

                                                                    I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.75 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                    Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).

                                                                    The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.

                                                                    Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.

                                                                    Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers.

                                                                    Added a new snac-admin helper script (contributed by shtrophic).

                                                                    In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden> tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.

                                                                    Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.

                                                                    https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                    If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

                                                                    This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by .

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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/

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

                                                                          I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.62 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                          Added a new user option to collapse top level threads by default.

                                                                          Added a new disable_block_notifications boolean field to server.json to disable the notifications of Block activities.

                                                                          Added a new strict_public_timelines boolean field to server.json to only show an account's posts and boosts (no trees) in public timelines.

                                                                          Fixed repeated images in posts from some implementations (those that include an image both as an attachment and as an <img> tag inside the post content).

                                                                          Added a small HTML/CSS tweak to improve post previews from some implementations (contributed by nyanide).

                                                                          Notifications for EmojiReact activities now show the emoji.

                                                                          New command-line action insert, to insert a post by its URL in a user's timeline.

                                                                          Fixed bad processing/rendering of URLs with two or more @ symbols.

                                                                          https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                          If you find useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

                                                                          This release has been inspired by the song Subways Of Your Mind by .

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                                                                            [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                            @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                            @chema@ctrvx.net @grunfink@comam.es I agree completely! I’ve been very satisfied with myself. Server software has gotten so incredibly bloated these days needing ridiculous amounts of resources, snac uses practically no resources and its development has been wonderful to watch take shape.

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                                                                              [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                              @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                              @grunfink@comam.es don’t even worry about it, has been rock solid and a truly great piece of software engineering. It amazes me how stable it is! Thank you for building and continuing to develop it!

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                                                                                [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                @grunfink@comam.es don’t even worry about it, has been rock solid and a truly great piece of software engineering. It amazes me how stable it is! Thank you for building and continuing to develop it!

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

                                                                                  I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.51 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                  Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).

                                                                                  Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.

                                                                                  Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).

                                                                                  On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.

                                                                                  https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                  If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

                                                                                  This release has been inspired by the album Eternal Embers by .


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

                                                                                    I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.51 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                    Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).

                                                                                    Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.

                                                                                    Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).

                                                                                    On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.

                                                                                    https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                    If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

                                                                                    This release has been inspired by the album Eternal Embers by .


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

                                                                                      I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.50 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                      Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt file at the server base directory; see snac(5) and snac(8)).

                                                                                      Improved page position after hitting the Hide or MUTE buttons (for most cases).

                                                                                      Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS define).

                                                                                      Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.

                                                                                      The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.

                                                                                      Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.

                                                                                      Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).

                                                                                      https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                      If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

                                                                                      This release has been inspired by the song The Raven by .


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

                                                                                        I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.50 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                                        Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt file at the server base directory; see snac(5) and snac(8)).

                                                                                        Improved page position after hitting the Hide or MUTE buttons (for most cases).

                                                                                        Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS define).

                                                                                        Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.

                                                                                        The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.

                                                                                        Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.

                                                                                        Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).

                                                                                        https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                        If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

                                                                                        This release has been inspired by the song The Raven by .


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                                                                                          [?]Jonathan Rollans »
                                                                                          @jrollans@jrollans.com

                                                                                          Discoverability seems basically non-existent using , but damn I like it a lot. I think maybe it’s a matter of finding folks to follow the “old way”. By browsing the internet.