doasu.dev 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.
Is it possible to have my snac instance use TOR to federate *and* to have it available over clearweb at the same time?
Would this mean that my instance pulls data from other instances using TOR, but other instances would only use the clearweb to pull data from me, so they could be blocked at the national level?
At first after using snac (coming from mastodon for example),
you feel like the UI is too minimal. Then you realize it's not
minimal at all, it's just getting out of your way.
You focus on the messages and not on the interface.
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.I'm just wondering how to achieve this. At first I tried the following, thinking the search path would default to the
static directory:{
...
"nixos": "nixos-logo.png",
}
however, it did not work; is the right way to go about this using a file:// URL schema?If someone I follow "likes" content, is that enough to
bring it into my timeline?
(content that seemingly should not show up on my
page.)
@nowster That's a #snac bug. The marker should be returned as a Datetime, documented here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/datetime-format/#datetime. Based on the error message it looks like it's returning $milliseconds.$nanoseconds since the epoch.
I've reported this as https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/659.
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.
That might explain why I have a single instance snac
server, and still get basically spam posts.
I know I get something similar to that when there is
like a secondary relationship thru someone i am following.
But these things I see seemingly have no connecting relationships.
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).

I now also have a favicon
(goodbye Susie
) and I overhauled my config
Fun! #selfHosting #customEmoji
If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.
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@p@hj.9fs.net
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
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.
Thanks also to: mkljczk, clairemont, Sprite_tm, wincentbalin, koru and anyone else I may have inadvertently overlooked who contributed to the improvements in this release!
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.95 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/34472
GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.
Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.
Added some fixes to media proxy code.
Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.
Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).
Added a notification filter for Webmentions.
Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).
Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).
Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
p » 🌐
@p@hj.9fs.net
ft. big update - over 100 new achievements!
Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?Even more: #snac, an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.
Anyway, there are some issues with AI development in Rust:
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#programming-languages
#faircamp #kiss #smolweb #permacomputing #noAI #c #lisp #clisp #scheme #zig #snac
rel="me" github (if it is "available").[←](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/previous)An [IndieWeb Webring](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws) 🕸💍[→](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/next) to your User Settings...BioI kept fat-thumbing when trying to open content warning'd/hidden posts on me phone...but I realised I can just edit the style.css to add a bigger margin. I should probably check out some of the proper stylesheets people have made (but there is something very rad about the default theme)
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9205d9d3a6f2 beszel-agent 0.02% 9.711MiB / 32MiB 30.35% 0B / 0B 95.7MB / 2.36MB 8
e99b7a7d6b93 redis 0.50% 2.441MiB / 64MiB 3.81% 195kB / 128kB 31.5MB / 3.3MB 5
9ce903f4ca01 echoip 0.00% 7.777MiB / 32MiB 24.30% 1.52MB / 30.8MB 38.1MB / 385kB 4
There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one #GoToSocial and one #snac.
Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.
This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.
Thanks, @grunfink !
#snac2 #snac #ThankYouTuesday #Efficiency #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData
THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET
#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac