taquiones.net 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
Mi instancia en el fediverso
Admin email
root@taquiones.net
Admin account
@victor@taquiones.net

Search results for tag #snac

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. 🙄

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. ;)

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

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🟩 »
@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.

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BSD Cafe Announcements »
@announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@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 😉


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.


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.

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 would 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.

ffuentes »
@soy@ffuent.es

Yo uso , es bastante fácil y consume poco o nada

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@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. ;)

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@rl_dane@polymaths.social

@passthejoe

There's always #GoToSocial and #snac ;)

poes 🇵🇸 »
@poes@sok.egois.org

@jmalonzo thats why I am using #Gotosocial and #Snac, it is lightweight both on money and resources. :D

poes 🇵🇸 »
@poes@sok.egois.org

@jmalonzo

#Snac search function is good, Gotosocial one is #meh it's working if you have a lot of time to wait

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Thank you to @grunfink@comam.es for implementing one of my feature requests in .
Now if you use your web browser and you get a new follower notification when you visit the notifications page there will now be a follow button next to the notification. To get this feature you need to be running the latest from their git repo.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/commit/d4137522487235180528281ee64b7c5963f63ebe

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Hmmm I see latest git shows quoted posts. Would some kind person quote this post so I can see ?

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

For this , I want to give my regards to all those great persons that have contributed to either with donations or code.

You make it possible. Thank you so much.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Va evolucionando (en mi percepción) a grupo de chat privado. Hace tiempo que pienso en que tengo que purgar gran parte de mi seguidos porque debo haberme equivocado mucho. Su actividad es mínima, si es que la hay, y lo que más percibo son conversaciones de bar de grupos de amigos. Concepto que no es que esté mal pero que te sientes excluido y eso NO es una red social tal y como la he conocido desde las BBS.
Ahora mismo en BlueSky, y siento mencionarlo, cualquier cosa que ocurre en nuestro entorno político, económico, fachoide o similar se comenta, se lleva, se trae... Se emplea el humor y el sarcasmo, y la rabia y el desencanto, y todo da sensación de estar vivos.

Aquí entiendo que no estoy siguiendo a las personas adecuadas porque me niego a creer que sea un erial. No lo dejaré porque tengo mi servidor propio () y eso me da seguridad pero claro, es como hablarle a mis perras, sólo obtengo alguna mirada curiosa de vuelta.

El problema, veo, no es ganar o perder gente. Es que la gente participe.

Rocketman »
@slothrop@chaos.social

I’m afraid that my head has decided that at one point, when the madness subsides a bit, I’m going to install on a VPS.

FediMeteo »
@admin@fedimeteo.com

Update: all the instances have been upgraded to 2.84


Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

The instance has been upgraded to 2.84

BSD Cafe Announcements »
@announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

The instance has been upgraded to 2.84

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

OK That's my avatar updated.

Darkstar boosted

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I've just published version 2.84 of , the simple, minimalistic 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 useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Right that's the logo updated on my website just the favicon to sort but that can wait for now as I'm I might increase my logo size yet ? Then I'll update my avatar too.

CC: @prahou@merveilles.town

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@vab @Bonn there are many followers from Bonn but (the great software powering FediMeteo) won't disclose anything about them - not even the real number 😉

Daltux 🐈‍⬛ »
@daltux@ayom.media

@kariboka @veroandi wins, then, I guess...

daltux »
@daltux@snac.daltux.net

✔️

$ du -sh snac/
895M snac/

$ docker exec -it snac_[...] sh
$ cd /data/data
$ snac block . repl.co
$ snac block . repl.it
$ snac block . replit.com
$ snac block . activitypub-troll.cf
$ snac block . misskey-forkbomb.cf
$ cat block/*
[...]
repl.co
misskey-forkbomb.cf
threads.net
repl.it
activitypub-troll.cf
threads.com
manalejandro.com
e-komik.org
replit.com

CC: @cadusilva@bolha.one @daltux@ayom.media @kariboka@harpia.red


Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

Great. My Saturday evening session has been positive. I coded some fixes so behind works with

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,

As 2024 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I haven’t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, we’ve outperformed many “big-name” cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?

For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - they’re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether it’s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.

BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isn’t endless growth (we’re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with “bsd.cafe” in the domain brings joy and pride. That’s the spirit I’ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether you’re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.

Promoting self-hosting and has, as a side effect, inspired some users to “go solo” with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.

Here’s a look at what we’ve achieved together this year:

- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users
Active in the past month: 207
Active in the past six months: 286
- snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users
Active in the past month: 7
- blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users
- matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users
- brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories
- freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users
- miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users
- press.bsd.cafe: 9 users
- myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users
- wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage.
- tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.

For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe

The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, we’ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.

Here’s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU!
Stefano

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

@grunfink

SINCE YOU LEFT ME

I'VE BEEN 
SNACPILLED

comam.es/what-is-snac

Alt...SINCE YOU LEFT ME I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

daltux »
@daltux@snac.daltux.net

Gosto demais de poder anexar imagem externa em publicações aqui, simplesmente incluindo-a no texto com a sintaxe Markdown ![descrição](URL), sem necessitar enviá-la e armazená-la no servidor do .

Essa é uma funcionalidade que poderia ser até mais destacada, pois já tentei fazer o mesmo em outro servidor que também suporta Markdown (Akkoma/Mangane), sem sucesso.

SNAC é um servidor ActivityPub extremamente minimalista e, por isso, bem peculiar, porém apresenta algumas funções únicas, como essa. Ele não é ideal para quem quer utilizá-lo majoritariamente com aplicativos clientes feitos para a API , pois seu funcionamento é bem distinto daquele mais comum e não tem o compromisso de apresentar as mesmas soluções para as mesmas funcionalidades. Mesmo assim, há casos em que se adequa muito bem. Se não faz questão de ficar o tempo todo interagindo com a Federação ActivityPub ou, por exemplo, se pretende criar um perfil para publicação automatizada por algum na máquina em que ele está rodando, isso fica muito fácil, pois já possui tudo que precisa no comando, além de ser pouco exigente em requisitos de memória e processamento. Pode ser compilado em praticamente qualquer plataforma POSIX e seus arquivos ficam numa árvore única de diretórios, tornando a transferência para outra máquina relativamente bem simples. Sua interface na Web é simples para quem utiliza e também para quem lê, ao sequer exigir a execução de JavaScript. Apenas HTML e CSS.

Como analista de tecnologia da informação, especulando sobre o ciclo de vida dos sistemas, considero provável que, por ter mínimas dependências, SNAC demore bem mais que outros servidores mais complexos para se inviabilizar ou precisar sofrer reescritas drásticas, desde que se forme uma comunidade maior que o mantenha ativo se porventura faltar seu criador.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Oh just keeps on getting better. Not so long ago the mutual acquaintances handshake icon would not be displayed in any browser even though I had the correct fonts installed. I even submitted a request to to be able to change the icon to something else if needed by OpenBSD users. But today after an update on the 7.8 snapshot I notice that they are displayed correctly now making it easier for me to see who is a mutual. Nice one OpenBSD ❤️

A screenshot of the mutaul handshake icon against  a users toot on my snac instance

Alt...A screenshot of the mutaul handshake icon against a users toot on my snac instance

BSD Cafe Announcements »
@announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

The instance has been updated to 2.83

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

The illumos Cafe snac instance has been updated to 2.83

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I've just published version 2.83 of , the simple, minimalistic 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 useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Now go visit my instance and post a screenshot of Dillo. 😉

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

This is great. I guess I need a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file myself for . I'll probably just copy GotoSocial's one.

FediMeteo »
@admin@fedimeteo.com

All the Fedimeteo jails have been upgraded to 2.82


Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

The instance has been upgraded to 2.82

BSD Cafe Announcements »
@announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

The instance has been upgraded to 2.82

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I've just published version 2.82 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

The language in which a post is written can now be set from the UI; you must configure the list of languages you usually post in in the User Settings.

Added support for bullet points in posts (lines starting with an asterisk or a hyphen, plus a space).

Added Dutch (nl_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Added Western Frisian (fy_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Mastodon API: Fixed repeated entries in timelines.

Added nodeinfo 2.1 support.

Fixed boosts from the command line not showing in the public timeline (contributed by xvello).

Updated several language files (contributed by zen and daltux).

Retrieving a post's replies is now possible via ActivityPub.

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

I have finally uploaded 2.81 to it
Fantastic news!

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Hi, Iwojima. I implemented the /api/v1/instance/peers Mastodon API endpoint in version 2.75. It returns the list of nodes a given instance knows, unless the disable_inbox_collection knob is set to true (in this case, an empty array is returned).

daltux »
@daltux@snac.daltux.net

Teste de listas com no :

  • teste 1
  • mais um teste
  • etc etc teste
Se funcionar, isso é graças a um aprimoramento feito hoje por @grunfink@comam.es

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Wow. You're very kind, Stefano.

Working on free software is sometimes great because you find people that really care. Men and women that care for others, that weave social fabric, that altruistically share their time in benefits of others.

Stefano (like many others) gives his time as a gift for others to enjoy. He helped me make what it is now.

If you had given up when my software was in its infancy, I would probably gave up and left it unfinished.

So, I dedicate my back to you, Stefano.

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Thank you! All add it to 's README.

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Hi. only updates the count of a remote poll when a) the original instance notifies the voters (i.e. generates and posts an Update of the poll object), or b) when the end time expires, where snac queries the object back to get the final results.

CC: @evan@cosocial.ca

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

@bjoern Yep, unfortunately. Reasons for switching to ;)

gyptazy boosted

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with , and many other ones!

The fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

Alt...Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

Daltux 🐈‍⬛ »
@daltux@ayom.media

Função muito supimpa do que só recentemente constatei como é útil: podemos pôr no texto a ligação para uma imagem externa, que ele a transforma em anexo da "atividade" (a publicação no ), sem precisar armazená-la! Pode notar que essa foto do Locutus — Cap. Picard (Patrick Stewart) assimilado pelos Borg — é descarregada diretamente da Wikimedia Commons!

Não sei se outros sistemas, mesmo os que também já suportam , fazem isso! Quem aí pode dizer?

Daltux 🐈‍⬛ »
@daltux@ayom.media

Não rolou: a imagem é carregada como parte do corpo da publicação, no próprio e também no Snac, mas não é um anexo da atividade. O nem exibe a imagem do assim.

Em ambos os casos em que ela aparece, porém, perdeu o "alt".

Conclusão: Como demonstrado antes, se saiu muito melhor nesse aspecto! ☑️

Captura da publicação anterior renderizada por Mangane (Akkoma), com o logotipo "g GeoCities". Este era para ter o texto alternativo incluído mas não teve, portanto segue:

GeoCities: logotipo por volta de 1997. É uma enorme letra "g" preta minúscula (não maiúscula), serifada com um ponto dentro. Abaixo dela, a palavra GeoCities, em caracteres negritos sem serifa, com suas partes "Geo" em azul e "Cities" em verde.

Alt...Captura da publicação anterior renderizada por Mangane (Akkoma), com o logotipo "g GeoCities". Este era para ter o texto alternativo incluído mas não teve, portanto segue: GeoCities: logotipo por volta de 1997. É uma enorme letra "g" preta minúscula (não maiúscula), serifada com um ponto dentro. Abaixo dela, a palavra GeoCities, em caracteres negritos sem serifa, com suas partes "Geo" em azul e "Cities" em verde.

Captura da publicação anterior renderizada pelo Mastodon, que coloca uma previsão do link para o Internet Archive "Welcome to GeoCities" no espaço em que esperava-se a exibição da imagem do logotipo colocada com Markdown, omitida por ele.

Alt...Captura da publicação anterior renderizada pelo Mastodon, que coloca uma previsão do link para o Internet Archive "Welcome to GeoCities" no espaço em que esperava-se a exibição da imagem do logotipo colocada com Markdown, omitida por ele.

poes 🇵🇸 »
@poes@sok.egois.org

@anders #snac or #gotosocial

but I prefer snac

Andy Piper »
@andypiper@macaw.social

My update this week is that I've been tinkering around at the MVP end of the fediverse, trying out projects like (and also, honk). I really need to write some of these experiences down somewhere! Also, preparing for my talk at next weekend.

What are you looking at that's interesting and -related right now?

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Otro invento del muchache de , un inventario del fediverso. Lo podéis ver aquí:

https://static.comam.es/redrick/

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.75 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).

The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.

Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.

Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers.

Added a new snac-admin helper script (contributed by shtrophic).

In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden> tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.

Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.

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

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

This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by .

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Y para muchas cosas más, pero entiendo que entre modas y seguridades otros lenguajes tiren más. Lo que me da más seguridad, por otro lado, es que vuelven los programas en C, como , y uno recuerda la maravilla de tener máquinas pequeñas y efectivas, con mucha dedicación y talento detrás.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

@Karvala@neopaquita.es para los seguidores también debería serlo, como he visto otras veces.

Claro que yo uso , no mastodon, y quizás haya alguna diferencia.

Y, bueno, que si no tenéis problemas pues mejor. 🙂

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

A week ago, I published a version of (a simple, minimalistic instance server written in C) that supported localisation of its web UI. Today, just seven days later, and thanks to collaborations, there are 10 languages already available.

You, people, are GREAT. Thank you very much.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

grunfink/versalita: Converts STDIN to several Unicode styles - Codeberg.org
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/versalita

¡Del autor de (el más mejor servidor activitypub) nos llega esta cosa, divertida a la par que ingeniosa, porque el muchache tiene talento!

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

We're all gonna die ☄ (@eschaton@comam.es)
https://comam.es/snac/eschaton

De la mano del muchache creador de , y su inagotable optimismo con el amor y la vida, nos llega ahora una instancia para saber si llega o no llega el meteorito de las narices.

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The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

is the powerful war rig in the army against the axis of biased social networks; is the little buffoon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.


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The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.69 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. Again, this version has been possible thanks to the very valuable help from great people. It includes the following changes:

Added support for subscribing to LitePub (Pleroma-style) Fediverse Relays like e.g. https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to improve federation. See snac(8) (the Administrator Manual) for more information on how to use this feature.

Added support for following hashtags. This is only useful if your instance is subscribed to relays (see above).

Added support for a Mastodon-like /authorize_interaction webpoint entry, that allows following, liking and boosting from another account's Mastodon public web interface. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /authorize_interaction to snac (see snac(8)).

Some fixes to accept Event objects properly (like those coming from implementations like https://gancio.org/ or https://mobilizon.fr).

Added some caching for local Actor objects.

Hashtags that are not explicitly linked in a post's content are shown below it.

Fixed broken NetBSD build (missing dependency in Makefile.NetBSD).

The user profile can now include longitude and latitude data for your current location.

Mastodon API: implemented limit= on notification fetches (contributed by nowster), implemented faster min_id handling (contributed by nowster), obey the quiet public visibility set for posts, other timeline improvements (contributed by nowster).

Reduced RSA key size for new users from 4096 to 2048. This will be friendlier to smaller machines, and everybody else out there is using 2048.

If the SNAC_BASEDIR environment variable is defined and set to the base directory of your installation, you don't have to include the base directory in the command line.

Fixed a bug in the generation of the top page (contributed by an-im-dugud).

Added support for Markdown headers and underlining (contributed by an-im-dugud).

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 Nine Hundred Miles by .

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The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Happy new year. I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.68 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. This release couldn't have been possible without the help of several fellow developers. It includes the following changes:

Fixed regression in link verification code (contributed by nowster).

Added ipv6 support for the https frontend connection (contributed by hb9hnt).

New "Like by URL" operation (contributed by dheadshot).

Added support for a Mastodon-like /share link sharing URL, like the one provided by sites like https://mastodonshare.com/ and such. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /share to snac (see snac(8)).

New linux landlock (sandboxing) support for enhanced security (contributed by shtrophic). It's still a bit experimental, so you have to enable it explicitly by recompiling with the WITH_LINUX_SANDBOX directive (e.g. make CFLAGS=-DWITH_LINUX_SANDBOX).

Some search fixes regarding repeated matches.

The export_csv cmdline operation now exports the CSV files inside a user's export/ subdirectory instead of the current directory.

All CSV files to be imported must now be stored inside a user's import/ subdirectory instead of the current directory.

Mastodon API: more timeline paging tunings (contributed by nowster), post language selected in apps is properly set.

The command-line operation note new reads the LANG environment variable to set the post's language.

A new command-line operation, note_unlisted, allows posting "unlisted" or "quiet public" posts.

The maximum number of entries in users' RSS feeds and in outboxes can now be set via the max_public_entries variable in the server.json file.

Fixed broken support for Audio objects.

Made xmpp and mailto URLs clickable.

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 painting Judith Slaying Holofernes by .

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Sí, es para justamente compartir URL en tu instancia de Mastodon, al estilo de compartir en Facebook, Instagram, Twitter y sus familias. Ellos, al tener un espacio de nombres único no tienen problemas en crear y mantener cosas así para los navegadores. Y además está muy documentando.

En el caso de Mastodon al parecer hay una operación llamada "share" que hace lo mismo. En lo están probando ahora y, o bien la página ya tiene incluido el mecanismo de compartir como pasa con "El salto", o bien te haces con una extensión o un bookmarlet. La extensión va como va, más bien regulinchi y el bookmarlet no termino de pillarlo.

La página del salto, correspondiente a una de sus noticias, es la siguiente:

https://www.elsaltodiario.com/static/share_freedom/index.html?text=%27Genealog%C3%ADa%20puta,%20entre%20la%20desmemoria%20y%20el%20borrado:%20%E2%80%9CSe%20deja%20de%20lado%20a%20las%20putas%20para%20sanear%20la%20historia%20cuir%E2%80%9D&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsaltodiario.com%2Ftrabajo-sexual%2Fgenealogia-puta-desmemoria-borrado-se-deja-lado-putas-sanear-historia-cuir%3F%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dweb%26utm_source%3Dmastodom

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Estoy haciendo pruebas con la casi última versión de , que tiene soporte para la operación "share" de Mastodon. Está fuera del protocolo ActivityPub pero si el autore es maje pues se dice. 🙂

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Por eso el término clonar no es el correcto. Clonar se entiende como una réplica exacta de algo. ¿Qué es tu cuenta? Además de un nombre que incluye un dominio está tu avatar, un texto biográfico, un correo asociado, publicaciones fijas, cuentas a las que sigues y que te siguen... Eso es tu cuenta. Y eso no está en mi servidor ni mi cuenta en el tuyo. Todo lo más la referencia a tu cuenta: el nombre y el dominio.

El que se puedan ver ambas estando registrado en un único servidor o instancia es parte de la "magia" de la federación. Cuando necesito ver tu cuenta mi servidor pide datos al tuyo pero filtrándolos. Yo no veo cuántos sigues o a cuantos has seguido, ni tampoco tus publicaciones. Para eso, y es por diseño de , el servidor activitypub que uso, filtra lo que pueda enviarle el tuyo respecto a tu cuenta y tengo que ir a tu servidor para averiguarlo.

Otra cosa, que es lo que hace el mendrugo este, es registrar una cuenta a tu nombre en su servidor puente. Si lo hiciese yo en el mío aparecería como @sunbeam_rider@taquiones.net, que tampoco es tu identificador porque el dominio cambia pero sirve para lo que quiere, sea lo que sea eso, que servicio público no creo.


CC: @pablo@mastodon.cl @fanta@mastodon.green @CorioPsicologia@mastodon.social

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

@fanta@mastodon.green @juanro49@fe.disroot.org cierto. Se está usando el término clonación muy alegremente. Puedo tener algunos datos de perfiles a los que sigo o que me siguen pero son mínimos. En mi caso, servidor activitypub puro (), no se guarda más que el identificador de la cuenta. Cualquier otro dato puede cambiar en algún momento y es tontería tenerlos almacenados.

Y quitando ese detalle concuerdo con Fanta en que es muy buena explicación.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Este fin de semana he dado de baja mi cuenta de Twitter. Llevaba con ella desde casi el principio aunque no he llegado a participar activamente; por un lado porque algunas de las cuentas eran tuitstars y no responden ni en broma. Por otro porque a veces no sabía qué decir y las pocas veces en las que sí lo decía el formato era corto para mantener discusiones.

Más tarde me he dado cuenta de que empleando el correo electrónico las discusiones no tienen sentido y que más allá del duelo al amanecer no merece la pena discutir con gente que se ha construido un personaje público y saca sus garbanzos de ahí. Entre eso y los palmeros, a los que el tuitstar SÍ responde por que necesita tenerles en cuenta, es difícil estar a gusto; de hecho el término "pocosfollower" es el indicativo de una época.

Pero sí que he pasado mucho tiempo allí obteniendo enlaces y enterándome de polémicas para pasar el rato y olvidar cómo estoy y quién soy así que tampoco es que lo haya dejado hasta el sábado. Una vez que tengo mi servidor en el fediverso (con ) tengo siempre un lugar que considero mío. Por esa parte estoy cubierto.

Ahora estoy intentando ver qué aparece en BlueSky y de momento están todos con una limpia tremenda de nazis y demás chusma que está funcionando al parecer. También cuentas estupendas que estaban permanentemente candadas en twitter ahora actúan en abierto y son una delicia de seguir. Pero el lugar sigue siendo extraño, como un barrio bajo asedio, y quiero ver dónde terminará cuando los dueños empiecen a monetizar.

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The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.65 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added a new user option to disable automatic follow confirmations (follow requests must be manually approved from the people page).

The search box also searches for accounts (via webfinger).

New command-line action import_list, to import a Mastodon list in CSV format (so that Mastodon Follow Packs can be directly used).

New command-line action import_block_list, to import a Mastodon list of accounts to be blocked in CSV format.

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

If you find useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/


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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

No os lo vais a creer, chiques, pero ayer me saqué una cuenta en bluesky para ver qué era exactamente y... Es twitter con el lema del buen rollo delante; como Google y su otro lema. No hay más.

Ahora, entiendo que les guste más que Twitter porque es más nuevo y huele mejor. Va a ser interesante ver qué ocurre con todos esos veteranos del pájaro mudados a otro twitter, más nuevo como digo, con toda la experiencia acumulada en años de uso del viejo twitter. Me recuerda a esas novelas cifi en las que a los humanos se les escapan por error bichos en otro entorno y cuando vuelven años más tarde aquello es terrorífico por cómo han derivado.

Cada vez estoy más contento de tener aquí mi casa, mi castillo, mi trinchera, ... Mi tumba. 🙂 (¡Toma ya!)

Mi propio servidor con del que no me pueden echar más que el casero cuando deje de pagar.

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.63 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the proxy_media boolean field to server.json to true.

The strict_public_timelines option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.

Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.

Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.

Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.

Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).

RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.

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 New Moon (Dark Phase) by .

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Hi, Justine. has a feature that is somewhat atypical: the inbox collection, which stores all public inboxes that crosses your instance and send all posts you generate to them, even if no specific accounts on that instance are in the 'to' list. Though it's on specification (what Mastodon calls 'federating' is very similar), some people or admins may find that posts from your instance arrives to them with no apparent reason, and may block due to ignorance and/or overzealous behaviour. You can disable this by setting the disable_inbox_colllection variable to true in you server.json config file.

Also, some people looks at the 0 count of followers / followees and infer (incorrectly) that it's a new account and blindly block your account.

CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.

Mastodon API: fixed timelines/public (it was showing less posts that it should).

Fixed over-zealous caching to the public timeline.

Some HTML tweaks and fixes to the web interface.

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 painting The Hands Resist Him by .

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.

Mastodon API: fixed timelines/public (it was showing less posts that it should).

Fixed over-zealous caching to the public timeline.

Some HTML tweaks and fixes to the web interface.

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 painting The Hands Resist Him by .

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Snac2 Hosting and Support | K&T Host
https://www.knthost.com/snac2

¡Toma ya! El uso de ha llegado a otro nivel si una empresa lo ofrece como servicio.

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

hi, author here. Version 2.60 has not been released yet, but it will be real soon.

CC: @Mastodon@mastodon.social @gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org @TangerineUI@nileane.fr @phanpy@hachyderm.io

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Esta es una prueba de borradores en . Funcionan bien.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Cierto, el algoritmo "orgánico natural de campo de toda la vida de dios nuestro señor", que en realidad es la FIFO de toda la vida también de etc..

Bueno, ahora que lo pienso sí que estoy usando un algoritmo diferente y al mismo tiempo similar: el que tiene (el mejor servidor activitypub de la provincia) que es FIFO pero arrastrando todo lo que está relacionado con las publicaciones y mostrándolo en hilos.

🙂

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

Tengo la sensación de que el fediverso se está convirtiendo en algo muy pero que muy aburrido. Y no sé explicar el por qué exactamente pero creo que tiene que ver con la falta de discusión y la intencionalidad de que esto sea un lugar demasiado tranquilo. Eso como sensación sin terminar de definir.

Es como todos de acuerdo en lo mismo y reacciones exageradas en cuanto alguien no piensa como nosotros: bloqueos, "silenciaciones", huídas, ...

Que lo mismo muchos de aquí vienen escaldados de twitter y están hartos de acosos y demás y quieren sitios tranquilos pero, ¿no es demasiado tranquilo?

Claro que no hay algoritmo y eso es posible que desvirtúe la visión. Yo al usar como servidor veo todos los hilos siempre cargados con que siga a alguien que ha escrito algo en él. Podéis imaginar lo que alcanzo a leer al cabo del día.

¿Y si hiciese falta un algoritmo de algún tipo? Podría haber varios, como los famosos "skins" de algunos programas o el planificador de tareas de Linux. Claro que lo mismo hablo por hablar y el algoritmo tiene recursos ocultos que ni imagino y no merece la pena.

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 .


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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

@Alexia_Powderr@mastodon.social me pasa igual, hay personas de las que no sé en semanas y hasta que no me meto en su cuenta no sé si siguen vivas.

es mi servidor y siempre muestra las cosas en hilos, de manera que no te pierdes de qué están hablando y aún así tampoco los veo a todos.

Debería haber un método para distribuir el contenido de otra forma pero eso suena a algoritmo y no es algo apreciado.

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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

@samcre@paquita.masto.host ostras, a mí también. Pensaba que era un error de ( aún no he instalado la última versión) pero veo que no.

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Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account) »
@stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

snac2 has reached version 2.44, which is stable and undoubtedly suitable for more comprehensive use.
In the coming days, I'll likely declare this instance as stable and include it in BSD Cafe's services. Plurality and choice are fundamental in a free world.


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Victor Moral ⁂ »
@victor@taquiones.net

tenía un problema funcionando detrás de Apache y el autore ha trabajado duro para arreglarlo.

Ahora funciona de maravilla. El error se daba de cuando en cuando y dejaba el sistema sin respuesta. O esperaba un buen rato o reiniciaba el servicio.

Mola cuando se lo toman en serio. 🙂