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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[?]Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

I can confirm that migrating from to worked flawlessly.
I tried it last evening and it was failing but I think it was just a caching issue.

And now, let's start!


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

    Sorry, I don't. I recall somebody told me that Mona works, but with some issues. Maybe others may tell about apps that work with .

    CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe @shmok@snac.bsd.cafe

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

      Hi, author here. Apart from Tusky (already mentioned by Stefano), there are other Android apps that work acceptably with snac, like Fedilab, AndStatus, Pachli (previous versions used to hammer the server, but it seems that the latest version no longer does) and tooot (though, if I recall correctly, it's no longer maintained).

      CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

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

        FWIW, I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.80 here:

        https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28828

        Thanks to Renee Otten, it was merged!

        My apologies for the delayed notification; I haven't been feelin particularly "social" media or otherwise.

        Probably has something to do with the fact that I attended Anime Expo ever so briefly on Friday and felt so overwhelmed that I basically spent about 4 hours there, despite having shelled out for a four day pass?

        Still trying to get back to some sort of introvert equilibrium after being around such enormous crowds.



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          [?]gyptazy »
          @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

          Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
          Updating snac2: 2 minutes

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

            For today's , I'd like to thank everyone who supports the Fediverse. So, that means *you*. Yes, you, the one reading this.
            Thank you!

            The Fediverse truly is for everyone: if you don't have the skills or means to set up your own instance, you can join one of the public instances that aligns with your aspirations. If you can and want to, you can create your own instance, and thanks to lightweight (and interoperable) software, you can do it with spare hardware or very affordable VPS.
            So thank you to all of you, friends of the Fediverse!

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

              So I wrote a poll with a text and 4 choices and combined with just ended up posting the question without the choices. Already happened the last time I tried so I supposed it wasn’t a random event…

              Can you snac users post polls with your iOS / Android clients ? For me it works from the web UI but not from my app (Mona).

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

                @santi@go.lema.org
                No idea... Does this work? (fedilab)

                Edit: apparently not
                #snac #Mona

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                  [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
                  @kzimmermann@c.im

                  @announcements the BSD cafe's instance has single-handedly motivated me to try self-hosting it in my RPi. Great job @stefano!

                    [?]BSD Cafe Announcements »
                    @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    The instance has been upgraded to 2.80

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

                      I've just published version version 2.80 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It only includes one bugfix; if you use the Mastodon API, you may be interested in upgrading:

                      Mastodon API: fixed a regression (introduced in previous version in the "boosts disappear in Tusky" fix) that interrupted timelines.

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

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


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

                        Hi. I have an ipv6 only instance, and it's able to access your host with no hassle.

                          [?]sam »
                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                          Alright I've got myself a 1GB RAM VPS for $12 for the year (a 4x increase over the Pi 😆). It's in London and everything for super low latency! I managed to get installed through some hackery and migrate my blog and instance to it.

                          One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

                            [?]sam »
                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                            In unsurprising on a news. I am increasingly fed up of having to restart it when it crashes due to running out of memory. It happens quite often when I post and sometimes when I don’t. I think this is due to having more content on disk than when I first set it up.

                            I may have to move it to slightly more powerful hardware for my own sanity…

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                              [?]Oliver⚡ »
                              @oliver@microhive.social

                              I've just updated my instance to version 2.79 👍 🎉
                              You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
                              A simple, minimalistic and well documented instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.


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                                [?]FediMeteo »
                                @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                All the FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to snac 2.79


                                  [?]BSD Cafe Announcements »
                                  @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                                  I've just published version 2.79 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                  Added a server-wide Webmention hook; this way, if somebody out there (that supports Webmention) links to a user or post in this instance, a notification is sent (this is the complementary of what was implemented in version 2.76).

                                  Fixed regression while sending email via pipe on OpenBSD.

                                  Fixed Markdown parsing when the URL has parenthesis.

                                  Always show the 'pending follow confirmations' section if there are any (even if the toggle is off).

                                  If a metadata value is an account handler, it's also tried to be validated (rel="me" links).

                                  Another search by URL tweak (this time for Pixelfed links).

                                  Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made some boosts disappear after being shown in apps like Tusky, added followed hashtags maintenance, other minor changes.

                                  Renamed command-line actions create_list to list_create and delete_list to list_remove.

                                  The default favicon URL can be changed from the server configuration.

                                  New command-line option export_posts, to export all posts by a user in a JSON format compatible with the one generated by Mastodon.

                                  The command-line options to send notes also allow an optional -r argument, to set the URL of a Fediverse post this note is a reply to.

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

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


                                    [?]sam »
                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                    Thanks to whoever figured out that my server configuration with Lighttpd opened me up to filling up the in-memory root partition and crashing the machine by POSTing a large file. Free pen testing is always appreciated. 😆

                                      [?]sam »
                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                      In snac on an ancient Raspberry Pi news, I switched from XFS to Btrfs and my memory pressure issues are now a thing of the past. As a bonus I can use snapshots for backups instead of taring up the many small files that snac generates (it has no traditional database).

                                      I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.


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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/

                                              [?]Kelson (Testing) »
                                              @KelsonTalksTech@snac24.keysmash.xyz

                                              Finishing more drafts and publishing them. Latest: my review of Snac (★★★★☆), an ultra-minimalist ActivityPub server that reminds me of an old Web 1.0 guestbook (minus the garish backgrounds and colors).

                                              And yet it not only lets you post text and images and follow people on other servers... it interacts just fine with Mastodon, GoToSocial, PixelFed and most of the Fediverse while using hardly any RAM or processing power. And it doesn't even need cookies or JavaScript!

                                              Very low admin tax, especially compared to Mastodon.

                                              I'd like to give a shout-out to the author, Grunfink, who has been friendly and helpful whenever I've reported a bug or suggested a change.


                                                [?]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.