snac.kagolug.org 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.
Boosting your post, just in case anyone out there knows something.
Also, I think it's important to remember that #snac also allows following hashtags by those RSS feeds provided by several Fediverse implementations (like Mastodon), avoiding the need of subscribing to a relay. E.g., you can add https://mastodon.social/tags/snac to the followed hashtags field, and it will periodically poll that RSS from the big instance and add to your timeline those posts tagged with #snac.
But, you can have snac running from a subdirectory of your main domain (which, as far as I know, no other fediverse implementation does). I.e. you can have your snac root in example.com/social and then you can identify as you@example.com . So you have no unnecessary subdomain just to be you.
Which is what I do for this very domain.
CC: @mms@bsd.cafe
Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_inbox_collection is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because it seems to be used for harrasing people.
Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_history is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because archived history files don't reflect reality after posts are deleted or modified (they always have been an ugly kludge).
Changed default: in previous versions, posts with a scope of unlisted were shown in public pages and RSS feeds. Now, they are no longer shown. If you want to get back to previous behaviour, use a new toggle in the User Settings section (see snac(1) for more information).
New admin configuration option: if the purge_static value is set to true in server.json, each user's static directory is explored and those files there that are no longer attached to any post or referenced anywhere are deleted. See snac(8) for more information about those cases where you may not want to enable this option.
Allow serving files from subdirectories of the static/ subdirectory (contributed by la_ninpre).
Minor tweak to webfinger code to handle Hubzilla's peculiarities.
Fixed a search case where URLs to GotoSocial statuses were misidentified as accounts.
Accounts that follow you are now marked with a thumb-up emoji, because followers are adorable people.
Fixed some account export errors.
Fixed an incorrect hash in post links.
Show an account's location link in the people page, if they have one.
Mastodon API: Fixed hashtags loosing the link after editing a post, minor tweak in access token processing (contributed by trondd555).
Drop usage of PATH_MAX (contributed by sergiodj).
New Polish translation (contributed by kpm).
Updated German and Czech translations (contributed by zen and pmjv).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
Also I think it would be even cooler if it was a CGI binary#snac is not a native CGI program, but it supports FastCGI. With a bit of work, it can be set up to behave as pure CGI. More information:
https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html
CC: @nick@treffen.geekyschmidt.com
Because snac2 is a standalone daemon and does not natively speak FastCGIThis is incorrect; #snac does speak FastCGI natively. You can set it up on OpenBSD without the need of relayd.
See the snac(8) manpage for more information.
At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.
#snac ... Snac's Not A Crappie.
Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
$ rmadison snac2 -s stable-backports
snac2 | 2.90-1~bpo13+1 | stable-backports | source, riscv64
snac2 | 2.91-1~bpo13+1 | stable-backports | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
I've just published version 2.91 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:https://comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/1774256733.794770
Fixed some local posts not being shown if the replied post is deleted.
Fixed web UI incorrect links to public posts for some configurations.
Fixed encoding bug in Mastodon-style share links.
Fixed an error that made imposible to leave empty the following hashtags or blocked hashtags from the web UI.
Include post attachments in the RSS feed entries.
Added some OpenBSD-specific documentation (contributed by oxzi).
Fixed some timezones (contributed by matoken).
Fixed some crashes (special thanks to Louis Merlin for helping me with this).
Updated Docker scripts to avoid generating a useless log file.
Fixed several memory leaks, key generation errors and HTML inconsistencies (contributed by dandelions).
Added ostatus.org and FEP-3b86 data to Webfinger objects.
Added a new CONTRIBUTING.md file. Among other guidelines, I explicitly say there that AI contributions are NOT accepted.
snac is now available as a Yunohost app. Thank you very much to Bruno Cesar Rocha for this.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.