schmonz.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.

Search results for tag #snac

[?]Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

It's fun to run servers on old, slow computers. Posts that showed up on my big fat server a couple hours ago are only showing up now, simply because it's too busy to receive all relevant notifications at once. Other instances seem to be backing off for a while, and try again at random intervals so the load on this box remains low. Pretty cool, assuming that's actually how it works!

Only when a post is boosted or replied to do I run the risk of my hot-babe CPU monitor turning nsfw. So better keep it boring, I guess.

    [?]FediMeteo »
    @admin@fedimeteo.com

    All the FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to snac 2.79


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

      I've just published version 2.79 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

      Added a server-wide Webmention hook; this way, if somebody out there (that supports Webmention) links to a user or post in this instance, a notification is sent (this is the complementary of what was implemented in version 2.76).

      Fixed regression while sending email via pipe on OpenBSD.

      Fixed Markdown parsing when the URL has parenthesis.

      Always show the 'pending follow confirmations' section if there are any (even if the toggle is off).

      If a metadata value is an account handler, it's also tried to be validated (rel="me" links).

      Another search by URL tweak (this time for Pixelfed links).

      Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made some boosts disappear after being shown in apps like Tusky, added followed hashtags maintenance, other minor changes.

      Renamed command-line actions create_list to list_create and delete_list to list_remove.

      The default favicon URL can be changed from the server configuration.

      New command-line option export_posts, to export all posts by a user in a JSON format compatible with the one generated by Mastodon.

      The command-line options to send notes also allow an optional -r argument, to set the URL of a Fediverse post this note is a reply to.

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

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


        [?]sam »
        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

        In snac on an ancient Raspberry Pi news, I switched from XFS to Btrfs and my memory pressure issues are now a thing of the past. As a bonus I can use snapshots for backups instead of taring up the many small files that snac generates (it has no traditional database).

        I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.


          [?]Ltning »
          @ltning@weirdr.net

          I have a server running under NetBSD on a 486, which also runs X. It's indeed painfully slow but it does work. And surprisingly well, too. An OS from 2025 on hardware from 1994.

          And if it wasn't for crypto being too slow to actually work I'd be doing the same on the 386SX-class machine that I also have running NetBSD. But with a hyper-optimized SSH handshake taking over a minute, I have no hopes for 2k RSA signatures or any kind of TLS handshakes with remote instances happening in anywhere near the timeframe they would need to..

            [?]sam »
            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

            Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

            https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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

              Hi. Next release will include a new field in server.json named favicon_url, that will allow to set the default favicon. For now, you can configure your HTTP frontend to serve $YOUR_HOST/favicon.ico to whatever icon you want.

                [?]fiery »
                @fiery@snac.bsd.cafe

                A question for my fellow users. I am using snac web interface which overall fits me very well, but I am missing a certain functionality (or maybe I just do not know how to do it?).The "followed hashtags" feature on snac seems to just generate a bunch of buttons, one for each hashtag, that I can click on and read the posts for that hashtag. I would like to have something more akin to what you see on other fedi clients, where the posts for that hashtag will be found together in your main feed, along with the posts for people you follow. Is that possible in snac web interface at all, or should I switch to some other fedi client?

                  [?]sam »
                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                  If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

                    [?]sam »
                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                    Part of running a instance on a 256MB Raspberry Pi is working out how to do "stuff" without installing more packages than you have RAM for.

                    Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...

                    https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686

                      [?]Conny Duck »
                      @ConnyDuck@chaos.social

                      What is the easiest way to get a instance for testing it with Tusky

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

                        A screenshot of a toot describing unpleasant world news in words. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]Hi, author here. The screenshot you provided shows that it's a boost by a user named Newk... if you are not following them, certainly it should not appear in your timeline. I've never seen this happen before, maybe it's some kind of strange bug. I'll investigate and get back to you if I find an explanation.

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

                          When receives a post from someone you follow, it also tries to retrieve the posts it's a reply to, up to the first one, to provide some context (and show the conversation as a tree).

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

                            I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.78 here:

                            https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28613

                            I'm not sure why, but it seems as if the GitHub Continuous Integration checks are just... hanging? They were queued for a really long time and I stopped looking and when I checked again it was like "running" or whatever for 9 hours, but clearly probably nothing is actually happening.

                            Builds locally OK!

                            It's been a couple of days since I submitted that PR, and my apologies for lagging upstream as well. My life has been kinda, off.

                            I'll probably get around to emailing the MacPorts' dev mailing list if it still seems to be stalled and no one else beats me to it. Presumably, eventually, it will get merged!

                            Thanks again to you and others (e.g. dandelions, postscriptum, piefed) for the continued improvements!



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

                              You're welcome, enjoy your !

                                [?]FediMeteo »
                                @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                All the instances have been updated to 2.78


                                  [?]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.


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

                                    Hi, author here. The easiest way is to configure Caddy to serve a special file as /favicon.ico, overriding snac's default.

                                      [?]PurpleJillybeans :PrideDisk: »
                                      @PurpleJillybeans@kind.social

                                      frens: what is the "correct" way to use a custom favicon? I've read and reread the docs and I'm not seeing anything about it. Is it something I'd have to do at the proxy level? (using Caddy BTW)

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

                                        Oh so it seems color emoji not displaying on is a thing. I wondered why I never saw the handshake icon for followers on and now I know why.

                                        A quick fc-list | grep -i emoji does indeed show the correct font is installed.

                                        /usr/local/share/fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular

                                        https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1atanzd/color_emoji_not_shown/

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

                                          Does anyone have a screenshot of Gargron's first Mastodon post?
                                          I don't have such a gem, but I have here the first post. Yes, I know the relevancy is astronomically inferior, but not for me 😆

                                          https://comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/1666208448.560042

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

                                            does; it tries for entrypoints for all links in a post's text.

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

                                              Hi, author here. Yes, the list of posts by an account is not shown through the Mastodon API, as it could be slow. Maybe someday.

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

                                                I'm sorry, but no ( author here).

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

                                                  I use to populate my feed. Just type in a hashtag that you wish to follow and then copy and paste the link into the follow section on .

                                                  https://relay.fedi.buzz/

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

                                                    I announce the release of version 2.77 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It just reverts a feature included in previous version; links in posts were also included as attachments, but, while harmless and on spec, it made posts look ugly in some platforms, and what the world doesn't need is more ugly things.

                                                    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

                                                      The last release fixes a problem with the Mastodon API. Now, apps (or webapps like Phanpy) properly work as the "inifite scrolling" has been fixed.
                                                      Thanks, Stefano. To be fair, the merit for this fix goes to @cheeaun@mastodon.social (Phanpy's author), who brought to my attention where the problem was.

                                                        [?]FediMeteo »
                                                        @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                                        All the instances have been updated to 2.76


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

                                                          Hi, author here. The xs code is specially crafted to parse the JSON files in use in the ActivityPub protocol, which are a) mostly small, and b) they have very few numbers, so the string to double conversion happens almost never.

                                                          Regarding the enum numbers: they are surely arbitrary, but the rationale there is that they are all ASCII control codes (so: less than 32) that should never happen in a JSON file (and, if they occasionally appear, they are converted to their Unicode representations). The correspondence is:

                                                          XS_TYPE_STRING 0x02 ASCII: STX (start of text)
                                                          XS_TYPE_TRUE 0x06 ASCII: ACK (acknowledge)
                                                          XS_TYPE_FALSE 0x15 ASCII: NAK (negative ack.)
                                                          XS_TYPE_LIST 0x1d ASCII: GS (group separator)
                                                          XS_TYPE_LITEM 0x1f US (unit separator)
                                                          XS_TYPE_DICT 0x1c ASCII: FS (file separator)
                                                          So, yes, they are arbitrary, but make some fucking sense, or at least a little bit.

                                                          CC: @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev

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