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@grunfink Which web client works well with #snac software?

By the way: Snac has themes. If you don't like them, build your own 🙂
And Snac runs smoothly with various web clients (e.g. Elk, Semaphore, Phanpy) and, of course, with pretty much every mobile client.

#fediversepower #snac2 #snac #buildyourown

I've just updated my #Snac instance to version 2.83 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

I've just published version 2.83 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

After receiving a follow confirmation, a bunch of posts from that account are requested and inserted into the timeline as context.

Continuously failing instances are marked as broken after a given number of days (see snac(8) on how to tune this counter). Incoming activity from any of these instances resets the counter.

Fixed a nasty bug that incorrectly deleted private local posts in certain cases.

Scheduled posts can now be sent from the command line (see snac(1) for more information on how to do it).

Docker: add timezone, new examples for building and complete Swarm mode stack with Traefik (contributed by daltux).

Fixed timezone names (contributed by dharmik).

Documented the update command (contributed by xvello).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Very interesting post. I myself also have several #ActivityPub channels for different purposes.
I'm very well connected with people through #Snac and #Hubzilla, but #Pixelfed and #Peertube are really just content ‘distributors’.
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
"All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected."

#snac is a pretty cool #fediverse #activitypub server software!

Super lightweight, no database, easy to set-up.

I will not replace my main #mastodon instance with it, but i really have some other use cases for it, for example some bots or so.

And from what I saw, the code also is pretty nice to learn things from it. (me, a c programming noob)

Edit: Totally dumb of me to NOT post the Git repo in the first place 🤦‍♂️
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#foss #lightweigt #c #server #selfhosting

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:

* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I tried to implement these filters and opened a PR.

The Elk developers have already merged it into the main branch, so we should soon see the two hide options appear in Elk. Hopefully the same will happen in Phanpy as well, because this greatly improves the experience on two excellent Fediverse tools, which are also compatible with snac.

https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/3482

https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/pull/1400

#Fediverse #snac #Mastodon #elk #phanpy

I was thinking about what @JenJen said on stream regarding needing the pretty in order to use something.

So true. I have to want to use something, or I just won't.

And is why I redid my css for #snac, #imgram, and #bssg.

https://the.teabag.ninja/2026/01/02/new-year-new-css/

I've just published version 2.86 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. Once again, most of the work has been done by fellow developers because they are the best. It includes the following changes:

Truncate RSS titles at UTF-8 character boundaries (contributed by lxo).

Link contacts to single-user people pages. Also, user's posts are shown (contributed by lxo).

Added emoji reactions (contributed by violette).

Mastodon API: Fix for some client notifications (contributed by violette), fix for a status visibility error (contributed by fruye).

If the query variable terse of a public post page is set to anything, no header is shown.

Fixed search failures when the query string has any leading blank.

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Are you in #tech and running your own #Fediverse instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!

My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac (#snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

All the #FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to #snac 2.86

#FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoUpdates

Hi, everyone. I've just published version 2.87 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It only includes a single change, to avoid using EmojiReacts to harass users:

Hide EmojiReacts from muted actors and blocked instances.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Bad people creativity always gets me off-guard. Upgrade your snac to this version ASAP, or revert to 2.85.

There will be another release pretty soon with a better solution to delete offending EmojiReacts.

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Um recurso excelente que acho que é exclusivo do #SNAC é "Ocultar esta publicação e suas respostas", muito útil para quando percebe que há ou que está surgindo um fio que não faz questão de ver. Não precisa silenciar a pessoa ou bolar um filtro de conteúdo. Basta um clique. Vida que segue.

My #snac instance runs on us-east-none so I'm still here.

#AWS #outage #USEastNone

I've just published version 2.89 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Fixed crash in pronouns processing (contributed by byte).

Added counters in the people page (contributed by byte).

New command-line option refresh, to refresh all follower and following Actor objects, marking them as broken if they are.

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Bugger was reading someone's post not sure who as it happened too quickly and accidentally hit delete when scrolling. If it was you I'm sorry. 😕 #snac

Trying Mona on #snac

My main (and truly only issue) with #snac is it's overreliance on filesystem operations. it's very cool from a purely unix kind of standpoint where you can see the elegance of such a design, but in practice, it's just way too much overhead

Having it operate with sqlite instead, as a baseline, would already make it much more efficient than it is

I do like that people are engineering stuff like this though, having the entire program be a self contained repository of readable C, that implements the basic features of mastodon, is kind of dope!

I've just updated my #Snac instance to stable version 2.89 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
From release notes: "New command-line option 'refresh', to refresh all follower." Do you feel refreshed my friends? 😉

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

I will need to get some CSS (download or create it myself) for my user pages that isn't a total mess. Everthing you need for _doing the fedithing_ is there in #snac2, but with tiny hardly recognizable links and tiny form fields. #snac

I've just published version 2.88 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

If disable_emojireact is set to true in server.json, EmojiReacts (incoming and outgoing) are totally disabled.

New command-line option top_ten, that returns the top ten most popular posts by a user (ordered by the sum of likes and boosts) (contributed by aov).

Added a new set of per-user muted words; if a post contains any of them, it's hidden behind a dropdown (contributed by byte).

If an account has a metadata named pronouns, it's shown by the name (contributed by violette).

Mastodon API: children of a post are returned recursively, not just the first level (contributed by violette).

Implemented optional metadata stripping for images and videos using external tools (contributed by Stefano Marinelli).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

I've just updated my #Snac instance to stable version 2.88 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
A lot of new great stuff in version 2.88, changes that make our Fediverse life easier, "muted words" ... whaaaaaaaat!!? Yes! 🤩

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

I've just published version 2.84 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This time, it includes mostly work by great, brilliant fellow developers while I was just sitting on the porch with the cats on my lap and a beer in my hand:

Implemented more scopes to match other ActivityPub implementations (public, unlisted, followers-only and direct message) (contributed by byte).

New icons showing instance and actor failures.

Mastodon API: Added remote accounts follow metrics and statuses when viewing profiles (contributed by Stefano Marinelli), fixed post deletion.

Fixed outbox collection (contributed by byte).

New file FEDERATION.md (contributed by andypiper).

Updated Czech, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese translations (contributed by pmjv and daltux).

Fixed manpage typos (contributed by r-ricci).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Ich liebe es, dass snac2 jetzt auch reactions kann.
Die habe ich mir schon lange gewünscht für eine kurze aber differenziere Rückmeldung zu etwas das ich gesehen habe.
Nur schade das Mastodon das nicht sehen kann, deren Nutzer sind die deutliche Mehrheit in meiner Bubble.

#Mastoson #Snac #Snac2 #reaction #emoji #emojireactions #acticitypub #fediverse