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

AodeRelay boosted

[?]R.L. Dane (snac) » 🌐
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

does not like GoToSocial (and/or vice-versa), but it seems to like just fine!

    fedicat boosted

    [?]R.L. Dane (snac) » 🌐
    @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

    @stefano@bsd.cafe @amin@polymaths.social

    itself is remarkably chill and old-fashioned. :D

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

      Hi. Thanks!

      I had no idea that has stopped working with Lemmy and NodeBB groups. I'll take a look at it.

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

        Right I only have one more bastille jail to upgrade out of eight and that's this one my instance so it will be down for a minute or two. See you on the other side. ;)

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

          [ RESOLVED ]

          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 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.

            AodeRelay boosted

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

            sudah upgrade ke 2.8.5 kemarin, sampai saat ini tidak ada masalah. Berjalan lancar saja.

              AodeRelay boosted

              [?]FediMeteo » 🌐
              @admin@fedimeteo.com

              Update: all the FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to snac 2.85


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

                Right I have back online after a major outage when I upgraded from 14.3 to 15.0 . The issue was caused by a massive twat ! Yeah moi. All I got was snac starting and constant 100% disk reading from it causing snac to not run correctly. Why well I built snac from git but on FreeBSD 14.3. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise I needed to rebuild under FreeBSD 15.0.
                Oh well lesson learned which I'm sure I'll forget. 🙄

                  AodeRelay boosted

                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                  @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

                  AodeRelay boosted

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

                  I'm currently back in Barcelona for the Ombra Festival (the opening night was last night) and have been AFK a LOT as a result!

                  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


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

                    Hello! I love and I use it wherever I can, even in projects like . For the BSD Cafe, I'm happy with the snac instance, and it's been online for a long time, but today I would still install Mastodon as the primary instance, and I'll explain why: moderation and user management.

                    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.).

                      [?]HïMY SYeD🟩:mstdn: » 🌐
                      @HiMYSYeD@mstdn.ca

                      @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.

                      |

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

                        [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                        @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                        @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.

                          [?]Oliver 🆕 » 🌐
                          @oliver@microhive.me

                          I've just updated my instance, to version 2.85 👍 🎉
                          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.
                          Do you see this post? It comes from a Snac server.
                          The Fediverse is larger than you assume 😉


                            fedicat boosted

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

                            I've just published version 2.85 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                            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).

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

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


                              #snac2 boosted

                              [?]Oliver 🆕 » 🌐
                              @oliver@microhive.me

                              Mal nebenbei: mein neuer Server bei (dieser hier, bei dem ihr das grade lest) läuft schnell, stabil und ruckelfrei. Updates klappen reibungslos. Ich bin sehr happy und hoffe dass das so bleibt 🙂

                              Ihr könnt das auch haben, wenn ihr wollt 😉
                              https://oliverhartmann.net/blog/

                                #snac2 boosted

                                [?]Oliver 🆕 » 🌐
                                @oliver@microhive.me

                                Mal nebenbei: mein neuer Server bei (dieser hier, bei dem ihr das grade lest) läuft schnell, stabil und ruckelfrei. Updates klappen reibungslos. Ich bin sehr happy und hoffe dass das so bleibt 🙂

                                Ihr könnt das auch haben, wenn ihr wollt 😉
                                (https://oliverhartmann.net/blog/)[Blogbeitrag dazu]
                                #

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

                                  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 instance (and two more) in a VPS with only 1 CPU.

                                    AodeRelay boosted

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

                                    Question for folk that use in their home labs or rather several. ;)

                                    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 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.

                                      #snac2 boosted

                                      [?]Oliver 🆕 » 🌐
                                      @oliver@microhive.me

                                      Ich hab gestern mal schnell zusammengeschrieben wie man einen Snac2 Server bei Uberspace einrichtet. Wenn man erstmal kapiert hat wie es geht, dann ist es ziemlich einfach 🙂
                                      So wie ich mich kenne, wird der kleine Beitrag beizeiten noch erweitert.
                                      https://oliverhartmann.net/blog/snac2


                                        [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                                        @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                        @passthejoe

                                        There's always #GoToSocial and #snac ;)

                                          fedicat boosted

                                          [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                                          @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                          @passthejoe

                                          Another super minimalistic one to check out if #snac doesn't work out for you is the wonderfully-named #honk ;)

                                          It's from the (in)famous #OpenBSD dev, #tedu. ;)

                                            AodeRelay boosted

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

                                            Did anyone ever deploy fedifetcher with snac?
                                            I'm not asking about mastodon but (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2)
                                            It seems even consecutive runs take over one hour, I've got duplicates of reply trees in my conversations, while still not seeing all replies there are. Also the "database" increased considerable in size.

                                            I guess it's not fully compatible. But I would like to know what others did with it.


                                              fedicat boosted

                                              [?]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.


                                                gyptazy boosted

                                                [?]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 .

                                                  AodeRelay boosted

                                                  [?]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/