Relays seem to be a big key to success when self-hosting/on small or single-user instances, so I've subscribed to one or two. Without those, following hashtags really is all but useless.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be any way to populate profiles of people that started following you. Even if you were to immediately start following them back, only future content gets pulled in then.

I like to take a peek at someone's profile when considering a follow, but they all have zero posts, so you have to pop over to their instance. Kind of a clunky experience when you have to leave the app just to see what a person (in the same social ecosystem, no less) is up to.

There seems to be one particular project called #FediFetcher that works to solve this, but it doesn't mention support for snac2, so I'm not sure if I can give that a try.

It'd be nice if there was a relay-like implementation that could help back-fill this kind of information, just to give you more to work with.

Beyond this I only ran into two issues so far;

I can't seem to send posts from #Tusky, which I found is a known issue (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/458 and https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/issues/5226). It seems like it's not technically the fault of Tusky, though it was introduced in a more recent version with some dependency version bump.

Fortunately they've gone ahead and applied a fix on their end to ensure better compatibility (https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/commit/e591c67e00e70112c53c9009874f558db99369a9). Seems like I'll just have to wait a bit for v31 to be released (or switch to the beta, I suppose).

The other issue is with how #Tuba doesn't seem to refresh automatically anymore. Or its refresh interval is very long, not sure. I don't know if snac2 supports the "feed streaming" functionality Tuba speaks of, but whether I have that enabled or not, neither the home feed nor the notifications actually update until I manually refresh.

Maybe this is indicative of a misconfiguration on my end, I'll need to fiddle a bit more with it.

Other than that.. For the first ~day everything seems to be running just fine? Neat!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #LearnWithMe

@rl_dane #Dillo and #Snac2 might make a nice pair...

@jibsaram Welcome, good to have you here 🙂

Would also like to try out #Snac2 someday...

I finally bit the bullet and spun up my own instance. I've picked a fun domain name that others might end up enjoying too, but for now it's just me, myself, and I.

It's running on #Snac2 on a Hetzner (ARM64!) instance in Germany, so the connection is a bit slow for me as I live in Asia, but should be fine for most everyone else I suppose. I could have put it on a Vultr instance, but this'll do for now.

Other than this.. nothing new to report? You may know me from the #BitBang #Mastodon instance, but since I've been wanting to give self-hosting a try, I figured now is as good a time as any to actualy try.

Now onto figuring out everything else surrounding self-hosting something like this 😅.

Do say hi, if you'd like!

#introduction #SelfHosted