I've previously used #snacizens, but #snacsters also sounds great 🙂

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

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

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#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song Nine Hundred Miles by #BarbaraDane.

On the other hand, the FediBuzz concept has the benefit that you only receive those posts you are interested in and not a firehose of data (most of it probably of no interest for you), which is a huge benefit if you have bandwidth restrictions.

OMG Following FediBuzz hashtags from your relay user account on a #snac instance actually works ! I think I'm going to be using FediBuzz a lot more now to follow hashtags and get more content.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

cc: @grunfink@comam.es

CC: @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

CC: @troed@sangberg.se

CC: @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

btw, if you're interested, how I post to fedi for my linkblog:

it all starts in my "bookmark" ruby script. It adds the bookmark to yaml file, which is then used to build the blog. This has not changed since last version.

I've added creation of a .txt file which will be the body of the toot. Then, my "deploy" script rsyncs the file to the server and removes local copy.

On the server, #snac is running in a FreeBSD jail. The folder where I upload the .txt file is mounted via nullfs.

Every minute a shell scipts iterates over the mounted folder, pipes contents into "snac note" and deletes all .txt file

I'm using Snac from #FreeBSD ports.

Also, those bookmarks could be even cooler if they contained #hashtags .

CC: @bookmarks@snac.crys.site

My new relay instance in the #Fediverse launched successfully :)

Just added a blog post: As I could see, not everyone was aware of the benefits of using such a service which is especially very important for smaller instances or even single-user instances. So, nothing new in the post - just a recap to summarize the things for newcomers :) #activitypub #mastodon #snac #pleroma #social #socialmedia #community

https://gyptazy.com/hosting-a-new-activitypub-relay-for-the-fediverse-including-mastodon-and-snac/

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/commit/468b7a38885152cb2d61537abfdd9a4cda9c847a/doc/snac.8#L587

I've followed the #FreeBSD hashtag for now and will see what happens. One thing that does come to mind is that you now have a user called relay that doesn't actually seem to do much other than follow the actors ????
Do I now have to follow my relay or is this something that the snac server takes care of ???

Also is it a good idea or can the relay user follow multiple relay actors ??

wow, that was quick - more than 30 instances already connected to my relay in just such a short time :) Let's be federated and help even smaller #instances to distribute their content & posts!

You can find more information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

The instance is reachable on IPv4 and IPv6.

#fediverse #mastodon #snac #snac2 #activitypub #relay #activtypubrelay #Pleroma #BSD #RUNBSD #devops #opensource #ipv6 #gotosocial #community #akkoma #pixelfed #selfhosting #homelab

@joel better use #snac/ #snac2 ;)

CC: @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

Hmmm was going to subscribe to https://fedi-
relay.gyptazy.com/ on my #snac server but there is one rule that even though I hardly post about might get my instance removed. It says "No political related content" but occasionally ( very rare ) I will boost a toot that I agree with to do with politics or make a random moan about our government but that too is rare. Mostly it's tech related and life. I totally agree with @gyptazy@gyptazy.com rules, it's just that politics that might catch me out ? So I guess I better go look for other relays like Intahnet.

Listing of other relay servers:

https://relaylist.com/

#Fediverse #Mastodon

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/282

snac2 - frontendin' alien toots
(Using snac2 and links2 to display mastodon toots from foreign instances.)

https://automa.triapul.cz/snac2-vol1/

Super special thanks to @grunfink , the author of snac, for returning sanity into web software.

#snac #serpico #links2gang

Alt...

ema, snac and grunfink, the real one

CC: @mms@bsd.cafe

https://weirdr.net/snac/ltning/p/1736896934.000000

Thanks for providing this service and also this information. At this point, we can only say - thank you very much for your time, efforts and money you put into this service @stefano. At this point I also want to bring up the great work of @grunfink for his incredible work in the #snac / #snac2 project. Snac became the perfect solution for single user instances but also project related instances in the fediverse. Kudos, to both of you and thank you both very much! You both are doing a great job!

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.68 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27332

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running (two out of three completed successfully, which is a good sign, here's hoping the last one has no issues as well).

As usual, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Ooh, I do like that #snac gives me a "delete" button for everyone *else's* toots! It hardly seems fair, but given I have impeccable taste it's probably correct to make me The Global Decider. Nice job 👍

I'm currently reading and interacting with a total over 1300 followers and followees, using tag filtering in tut, without any problems. This is a efficient power-user way to rip through posts and filter out what I'm not interested in, so I can find useful and relevant information from thousands of posts per day really quickly.

When I want to see an image in context I'll open the link in the web browser. I like it this way since I can limit my exposure to images, which sometimes turn out to be unsavory. Surprise, right?

I recommend you give it a spin. The backend proxy setup is about the same as if you were going to install Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc., so if you don't like it you can just put one of those other bloated beasts on the proxy port and call it a day. ;)

#snac #Fediverse #hosting #selfhosting

CC: @jonathanmatthews@fosstodon.org @stefano@bsd.cafe

Is #snac2 a suitable fedi server for a single-person, daily-driver instance, accessed via mastodon apps, interacting with the wider fediverse?

I /think/ I've mostly seen it deployed as a more write-centric service (for info bots/etc) ... but I could be mistaken.#snac #Fediverse #hosting #selfhosting

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 #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the painting Judith Slaying Holofernes by #ArtemisiaGentileschi.

#snac is really awesome and @grunfink did an amazing job by creating this. It even runs smoothly on my RISC-V dev board which is really pretty slow.

@gumnos @ltning @rubenerd @grunfink