• Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache (by Stefano Marinelli).
• Caching Snac Proxied Media With Nginx (by Stefano Marinelli).

Quote-posting your own posts is now allowed (do it by adding RE: https://example.com/you/post-id in its own line in a post body).

The Mastodon API can now be disabled by setting the mastodon_api directive to false in server.json (no need to compile it out).

Fixed a crash in chunked transfer encoding code (special thanks to Sergey Bronnikov for bringing this to my attention).

Tweak to JSON loading code to circunvent fmemopen() issues on Illumos / OpenIndiana systems (contributed by aleteoryx).

Mastodon API: Fixed error in voting code (contributed by uilebheist), more aggressive old data purging.

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 noticed from the snac(8) manpage that there's some support for Events in snac, and I've seen one post that had an "Event" tag attached to it. what's the current state of ActivityPub Events? are we able to create Events from snac?

The #illumosCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.96

#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.96

#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #snac2

Accounts can be marked as cool; anytime a cool account posts something, a notification will be sent.

Fixed an issue in Direct Messages sent from the people page; these posts didn't explicitly mention the recipient, and that confused some implementations.

Fixed crash when sending an empty EmojiReact.

HTTP requests can now be forced to use IPv6 by setting the force_ipv6_requests configuration directive to true in server.json.

Fixed a socket buffering issue under OpenIndiana (contributed by aleteoryx).

Mastodon API: Added missing requested_by field in the relationships entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), implemented the followers entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), use Mastodon's RFC3339 format for markers (contributed by nowster), fixed posts with muted words not being filtered out, fixed editing of media alt texts.

Tweaked HTML to avoid elinks complaining about a missing '#top' fragment.

Fixed a bug that made deleting the notification email address impossible.

RSS timelines are now cached because fuckers hammer for them continuously (probably AI crap bots).

Added information to README.md on how to build and install on Illumos / OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 (contributed by aleteoryx).

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

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

@paul@paulwilde.uk Many thanks. That wasn't immediately obviously when you're as lazy and impetuous as myself ! #snac is yet another lovely open source software package for ActivityPub.

snac(8) states that

Emoji values can also be URLs to image files; in this case, they will not be substituted in the post content, but added to the 'tag' array as an ActivityPub standard 'Emoji' object (it's recommendable that the Emoji key be enclosed in colons for maximum compatibility with other ActivityPub implementations, like e.g. :happydoggo:). These images can be served from an external source or from the static directory of the instance admin.

{
    ...
    "nixos": "nixos-logo.png",
}

#snac

@ploum @stefano I absolutely did for a while too. At some point I switched to Gotosocial because of issues with my iOS clients (likely fixed since then).

I do keep a my old #snac instance alive as an archive and update it just as easily as in the past years with that little script that just fetches the source and compiles.

Alt...

A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

#Fediverse #snac #GoToSocial #littleFedi #OwnYourData #Mastodon

On the other, whenever a post from someone you follow gets in, snac tries to retrieve (following the inReplyTo fields chain) all the conversation up to the beginning to give you some context in the conversation. It may happen that, if that account you follow deletes their post, the replied post is left in your timeline, for no apparent reason.

Sorry, only minimally sorry XD

P.S., Yes #snac is good too. Very excited about #LittleFedi as well. Not so much into *key, *oma, or friendica, but not hating. Just not my thing. Cheers.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snark

Alt...

Judgmental Volturi / Smug Vampires meme: Top caption: Me and my fedipeeps watching people on the fediverse complain about "Mastodon" stupid limitations/design choices... Bottom caption: ...from our GoToSocial instance

The best way to include links with unusual characters in #snac is to use the Markdown syntax for links, like in East of Eden.

That is, an open square bracket, then the alt text, then the open bracket, then the url, then the close bracket (see snac(5) for more info).

If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

#snac @grunfink@comam.es #fediverse

Alt...

mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

it could be possible to hack #snac to run on a #9front machine

CC: @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Well, now I think about it, it could be possible to hack #snac to run on a #9front machine.

@jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Because it's technically impossible to set up a Fediverse server with absolutely no AI code underneath whatsoever

PRs, diff patches and bug reports must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.

If I recall correctly, the Gotosocial Fediverse software also have a very clear position in this topic (i.e. no AI).

You're very right in the OS positions regarding LLMs, sadly. The nearest to what I approve is NetBSD, but it's not totally clean.

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

I've upgraded #FediMeteo in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #snac2 #Fediverse #OwnYourData