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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[?]Christoph »
@chris@social.shtrophic.net

Question about : does snac send out Activitypub Deletes when one user's content is purged? So, is the content only deleted locally or also in the Fediverse?

    sam boosted

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

    I love independent proposals, so next release of will include support for Webmention. It's a protocol built on top of web standards and part of the IndieWeb. It helps web page maintainers and bloggers to know when one of their URLs are mentioned in other platforms by providing a webhook to receive notifications. In snac's case, all links written in a Fediverse post (directly or using the Markdown format) will be tested for Webmention endpoints and notified if they exist.

    I don't know how many web sites out there implement Webmention (I guess very few), but given that it has been very simple to implement, here it is.

    Long live the non-big-tech Internet.


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      [?]Rav Sha'ul »
      @ravshaul@mastodon.social

      Who runs a server I can join? I'm strongly interested in trying

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        [?]sam »
        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

        Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

        https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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

          Hi. Next release will include a new field in server.json named favicon_url, that will allow to set the default favicon. For now, you can configure your HTTP frontend to serve $YOUR_HOST/favicon.ico to whatever icon you want.

            [?]thedaemon »
            @thedaemon@snac.9front.club

            how to change the favicon on snac? I seem to only be able to update it on the greetings page, didn't see any reference in the man pages.

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

              How come on software, when I tap on like or reshare it collapse kind of


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                [?]FediMeteo »
                @admin@fedimeteo.com

                All the FediMeteo instances have been updated to snac 2.74


                  [?]pela0 »
                  @pela0@notsosocial.sysops.cl

                  Hey @grunfink@comam.es, a couple days ago I started using ...no doubt, one of the best entry point IMHO... thanks a bunch!!!

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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/

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                          [?]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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                            ティージェーグレェ boosted

                            [?]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!

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                                  [?]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 .


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                                    [?]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 .


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                                      [?]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 .


                                        Jonathan Rollans boosted

                                        [?]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.

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