http://gyptazy.com/fedi/gyptazy/

#mastodon #alternatives #fediverse #activitypub #customizing

#fediverse #activitypub

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: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

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

#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes

Função muito supimpa do #SNAC 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 #ActivityPub), 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 #Markdown, fazem isso! Quem aí pode dizer?

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

@anders super minimalistic: #snac from @grunfink

When I started developing snac, I realized I needed a default icon to show for those accounts that lacked an avatar, similar to the outlined elephant Mastodon has. Given the minimalistic nature of the software, I thought that having a heavily-pixelated one, even 8-bit-like, was a perfect match.

So, I started designing one, inspired by singer/composer Siouxsie Sioux, whom I'm a big fan of. I've done some pixelart before, but was not totally satisfied, so I asked a friend with more artistic skills, who did some tweaks, and I was finally happy with it.

Also, it's said that all cool software must have some easter eggs; so, Susie looks somewhat different sometimes, and once a year, in a special day, she looks very different. Easter eggs are like jokes and if you explain them they lose their power, so I'm leaving it here.

As announced, I also completed the Western #Frisian translation for #snac #snac2 and sent a PR for it. My Dutch PR was merged already \o/.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/pulls/452

Added a Dutch po file for #snac #snac2 in this PR. I am also working on Western Frisian, but it takes me a bit more time, as I'm not fully able to translate every word there (Frisian misses some translations, and I don't want to get too creative).

But should be able to PR Frisian today as well;

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/pulls/451

#Bobadin
#ThisIsTheWay

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.81

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

By the way, my #snac instance now runs on #DockerSwarm along with #Traefik, the reverse proxy which I've used since the start of this server. If you think it could be helpful, I’d be happy to submit a pull request with an example file like examples/docker-swarm_stack_traefik.yml.

I’ve also pushed the container image I built to Codeberg. Additionally, I could share a script that automates this setup.

If the propagate_local_purge configuration variable is set to true in server.json, purged local posts generate a Delete activity that is sent everywhere, instead of only deleted from the filesystem.

Included a small tweak to avoid being confused by implementations that return valid webfinger queries for non-account URLs (like i.e. the Wordpress ActivityPub plugin in some configurations). This helps in searching by URL.

Added Ukrainian translation (contributed by wincentbalin).

New command-line option muted, to list all MUTEd actors.

Mastodon API: Fixed metadata and follower approval flag when editing the account.

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

The #snac instance on my Pentium Pro is struggling quite a bit. Suggestions as to how to make it return fewer 502s and 499s are most welcome. Suggestions to not run it on such an old box are welcome but will be ignored :D

(Yes, it is the machine I am posting this from, too)

CC: @strk@floss.social

If you want to change the domain, you must move all your accounts from the old server to the new one, while both instances are operative.

https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#Migrating_from_snac_to_Mastodon

and this

https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#Migrating_from_Mastodon_to_snac

If you want to move from one #snac to another, it's mostly the same.

MUTE: silences an author forever. You'll never read anything from this poster anymore. Like block in Mastodon and other implementations, but without sending a Block activity.

Hide: hides a post and everything hyerarchically below (i.e. the full tree). The conversation won't be shown to you forever, and any incoming post in any of the levels will be dropped. No other part is informed about it, it's just a local operation.

Delete: deletes a post from your timeline. If it's part of a conversation, the branches below are left dangling, but are still shown in you timeline. Also, if you are the author of the post, a Delete activity is sent to everyone involved, so your post (hopefully) disappears everywhere.

CC: @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

CC: @pernia@schizophreniabunker.vip @mint@ryona.agency @sysrq@lab.nyanide.com

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

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

For today's #ThankYouTuesday, 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!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #GoToSocial #Wordpress #Mitra #Akkoma #Pleroma #Honk #Peertube #Pixelfed #TooManyToEnumerateHere

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

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been upgraded to 2.80

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Hello Fedi friends!

My child and I arrived in Italy yesterday to spend all of July at my parents' 🇮🇹

What's the first thing I did this morning? Following @milano to have weather forecasts here in my feed.

Special thanks to @stefano for creating this incredible project.

For those of you not familiar with #FediMeteo, it covers 2893 cities in 38 countries. All powered by a 4€/month VPS with #snac and #freeBSD:

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Grazie Stefano! 🙏✨🏆