snac.lab8.cz 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.

Admin account
@hash@snac.lab8.cz

Search results for tag #snac

FediMeteo »
@admin@fedimeteo.com

All the instances have been updated to 2.76


    BSD Cafe Announcements »
    @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    lorenzo »
    @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

    In love with


      lorenzo :go_to_social: boosted

      lorenzo »
      @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

      Menel :xmpp: »
      @menel@snikket.de

      @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

      Yes, I use my relay account to follow multible Hashtags from
      https://relay.fedi.buzz/
      And it follows
      https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

      Then it follows some https://a.gup.pe/ groups. But I don't know if that one works for me to see it at my real account.

      But the fedi.buzz hashtags work very good and the gytazy relay generates a lot of content for me to follow with Hashtags too. Feels like on a big instance.


        lorenzo »
        @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

        @menel@snikket.de Can I ask you witch relay are you using for your instance?

          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

            Oliver⚡ »
            @oliver@microhive.social

            I've just updated my instance to version 2.76 👍 🎉
            You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
            A simple, minimalistic instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.

              Chee Aun 🤔 »
              @cheeaun@mastodon.social

              Hopefully Phanpy works better now for folks on . Took me some time to investigate this issue codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/is , found that `Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link` header is needed for `Link` header to be read by the browser's `fetch`, used by Masto.js to paginate requests 🙇‍♂️

              Related issue: github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issu

              comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/17467

                lorenzo :go_to_social: »
                @lorenzo@fedi.bobadin.icu

                Testing a #Snac instance.
                I think I have to do a better job with #Caddy

                #Selfhosting #Selfhosted

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

                  Thank you!

                  I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.76 here:

                  https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28373

                  GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed!

                  It's up to someone else with write access to merge it.

                  Thanks to you and dandelions and shtrophic (and anyone else I may have missed) for the continued contributions and improvements!

                  (these modest diffs were prepared in part while listening to "Garlic Braid" by LMNO & D-STYLES: https://d-styles.bandcamp.com/track/garlic-braid [the 1st single from the upcoming full length album: Three Mimes & an Elephant)



                    The Real Grunfink »
                    @grunfink@comam.es

                    does indeed support access (bearer) tokens:

                    https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.1.html#Implementing_post_bots

                      Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                      @santi@go.lema.org

                      Took me a long time to understand why my home IP didn’t update in DNS.

                      Turns out I was using my own script ( https://n4no.org/tools ) but that was on my now dead Mastodon instance. 🤦🏻‍♂️

                      Also #snac does not support access tokens apparently which makes it much more difficult to just script posts from a remote machine (previously jsut one curl request with vanilla Mastodon). It’s easy to post from the snac server itself as it has commands to post but not via a remote request.

                        lorenzo :go_to_social: boosted

                        The Real Grunfink »
                        @grunfink@comam.es

                        I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.76 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                        Added Webmention support for links (Markdown-style or direct) written in a post.

                        Added new command-line options for list maintenance.

                        Display custom emoji in more places (contributed by dandelions).

                        Mastodon API: fixed infinite scroll in many clients (thanks to cheeaun for giving me the clue), added /api/v1/accounts/.../lists endpoint (contributed by dandelions).

                        Email notifications can now be sent via libcurl SMTP instead of spawning the /usr/sbin/sendmail program. To use this new feature, some additional server configuration is needed, see snac(8) (contributed by shtrophic).

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

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


                          Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                          @santi@go.lema.org

                          I was a bit confused about by @taka_hvc1@social.mikutter.hachune.net because GitHub is all in Japanese and I can’t read it 😔 but it was so easy SO compile and run!

                          So small, so perfect. Plain C.

                          It streams your feed. You press enter once to write post and again to send. See post above.

                          https://github.com/taka-tuos/nanotodon

                          Perfect companion for by @grunfink@comam.es

                          Alt...Terminal builds nanoton in 4 seconds on a pi, then runs it (login was done previously). It streams some posits, I press enter and I post something.

                            lorenzo :go_to_social: »
                            @lorenzo@fedi.bobadin.icu

                            Dopo #BSSG (quasi pronto, arriva eh) mi sta salendo la voglia di provare #Snac

                            #Bobadin :bobadin:
                            #ThiIsTheWay

                              Justine Smithies »
                              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                              Oh well lesson learned. Be careful how many large photos you post on your single user instance. Just DDoS myself for a moment there. Looked at the stats on and I was maxing out the 100Mb uplink. Thank God for the fantastic Andrews & Arnold 1G/100Mb fttp connection.

                                mascal »
                                @mascal@bench.thebus.top

                                Well, my install is now using unix sockets instead of IP ones. Because I use the backports package, I had to do a bit of systemctl edit sorcery, disabling PrivateTmp, which is a bit meh.

                                Don't ask me why I did it, especially that I don't need that much of throughput.

                                  alexa lake 🕊️🌿 »
                                  @lxak@pishon.social

                                  / question: when you upload media, especially when 2 posts are back-to-back, does anyone else experience snac serving post A's photo on both A and B?

                                    sam ✅🇬🇪 »
                                    @sam@chven.us

                                    just moved my website to another server before I move. I've successfully rsynced my snac directory and reinstalled it on the new server with no apparent breakage.


                                      The Real Grunfink »
                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                      I love independent proposals, so next release of will include support for Webmention. It's a protocol built on top of web standards and part of the IndieWeb. It helps web page maintainers and bloggers to know when one of their URLs are mentioned in other platforms by providing a webhook to receive notifications. In snac's case, all links written in a Fediverse post (directly or using the Markdown format) will be tested for Webmention endpoints and notified if they exist.

                                      I don't know how many web sites out there implement Webmention (I guess very few), but given that it has been very simple to implement, here it is.

                                      Long live the non-big-tech Internet.


                                        daltux »
                                        @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                        [Fora do tópico] Acabo de perceber que o comeu da segunda linha em diante do alt text. Parece que só aceita a primeira linha mesmo, sem quebra. A publicação foi feita com Fedilab. :bug: ❔ 🤔

                                        CC: @pBaesse@bolha.one @homeassistant@fosstodon.org @tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br @tecnologia@lemmy.pt @tech@bolha.forum @ayom_gt_ti@forum.ayom.media

                                          daltux »
                                          @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                          @pBaesse@bolha.one @homeassistant@fosstodon.org @tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br @tecnologia@lemmy.pt @tech@bolha.forum @ayom_gt_ti@forum.ayom.media Uau! Já deve servir bem quem quiser, por exemplo, hospedar uma instância pessoal do ou para VPN/túnel! :takeMyMoney:

                                          :debian: :gnu: :linuxLibre: Pode-se inclusive instalar facilmente o kernel -libre no pelo repositório Freesh. Dá pra tornar a VM 100% ! 🥰

                                          Usa a região da Irlanda ou qual? Como é o ping? Pergunto-me se fica melhor que para estruturas da Ayom e minha pessoal na Alemanha.

                                          🔖 Salvei aqui para analisar as eventuais opções daqui a um ano, quando vencerá meu plano atual bem mais caro, embora mais robusto.

                                          Captura de tela de parte da página do "VPS Hosting Service" aberta pela indicação de Baessito, exibindo, em inglês, as características da oferta "Linux VPS - NVME HP - 1GB" e, abaixo, o preço mensal em destaque, que seria originalmente de 7 dólares, por 1 dólar e 40 cents com o desconto aplicado. As características da máquina virtual ofertada são:

                                          Alt...Captura de tela de parte da página do "VPS Hosting Service" aberta pela indicação de Baessito, exibindo, em inglês, as características da oferta "Linux VPS - NVME HP - 1GB" e, abaixo, o preço mensal em destaque, que seria originalmente de 7 dólares, por 1 dólar e 40 cents com o desconto aplicado. As características da máquina virtual ofertada são:

                                            gyptazy »
                                            @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                                            My relay instance for the evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

                                            If you're running / , , or any other software on the protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully also supports relay services soon! Of course is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

                                            fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

                                            Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

                                            Alt...Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

                                              The Real Grunfink »
                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                              I've just enjoyed this fascinating conversation between @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live and @stefano@bsd.cafe, where the latter explains how he planted the seed of the incredibly friendly, great and extense community that is the BSD Cafe. Open source, owning you own data and the importance of interconnecting people is talked about here. Of course, Stefano also talked about https://fedimeteo.com/, his great project that makes weather information available to the whole Fediverse; this makes me, as the developer of (one of the pieces of software that operates Fedimeteo), also a bit proud of being a part of.

                                              As Stefano says, "you can't describe passion", but you can feel it from his words.

                                                r1w1s1 »
                                                @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                Hi Feedverse!!!

                                                Big thanks to Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe),
                                                our dedicated admin keeping BSD.cafe running smoothly.
                                                Stefano is always such a positive presence, and his work
                                                is the foundation of our feedverse home.

                                                And a huge shoutout to The Real Grunfink (@grunfink@comam.es),
                                                creator of the excellent server.
                                                Snac truly embodies the KISS and minimalist principles – simple,
                                                efficient, and powerful software that makes the Fediverse better.

                                                These two contribute significantly to our online space.
                                                If you value their efforts and the spirit of their work,
                                                consider supporting them financially.
                                                Every bit helps keep these vital parts of the decentralized web thriving.

                                                Thank you, Stefano and Grunfink!


                                                  The Real Grunfink »
                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                  Hi, main developer here. Follow metrics are disabled by default, but you can enable them from your user settings.

                                                  CC: @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                    Stefano Marinelli »
                                                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                    For those who want to watch yesterday's live chat on Fireside Fedi, here’s the link to the full video. We talked about the BSD systems, FediMeteo, snac, the BSD Cafe, the Open Source world, the Fediverse and... spaghetti

                                                    video.firesidefedi.live/w/vSo8

                                                      The Real Grunfink »
                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                      For today's , I want to thank @gyptazy@gyptazy.com and his cool project BoxyBSD, for providing me with a small OpenBSD VPS that works like a charm and that is helping me with the development of .

                                                        daltux »
                                                        @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                        Testando envio ao de quatro imagens pelo tal qual exemplo de @santi@go.lema.org

                                                        Software livre. Sociedade livre. gnu. org

                                                        Alt...Software livre. Sociedade livre. gnu. org

                                                        O desenho de uma cabeça de um gnu, bovídeo africano, em um círculo amarelo no meio de um fundo vermelho e com os dizeres gnu.org - eu apoio software livre.

                                                        Alt...O desenho de uma cabeça de um gnu, bovídeo africano, em um círculo amarelo no meio de um fundo vermelho e com os dizeres gnu.org - eu apoio software livre.

                                                        Desenho colorido com crianças enquadradas em molduras que parecem espertofones sinistros, preocupadas ao trocarem um papel. No outro lado, mais claro, crianças com semblante contente trocam ícones que remetem a amor e felicidade. Ao centro, lê-se: vamos lutar por um mundo com liberdade de software. FSF. gnu.org

                                                        Alt...Desenho colorido com crianças enquadradas em molduras que parecem espertofones sinistros, preocupadas ao trocarem um papel. No outro lado, mais claro, crianças com semblante contente trocam ícones que remetem a amor e felicidade. Ao centro, lê-se: vamos lutar por um mundo com liberdade de software. FSF. gnu.org

                                                        Executar, estudar, aprimorar, compartilhar. FSF, gnu.org

                                                        Alt...Executar, estudar, aprimorar, compartilhar. FSF, gnu.org

                                                          Puffy Fan »
                                                          @Puffy4Life@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                          Using app for seems to functional identically to a Mastodon account, has anyone had an issues for tusky with snac?

                                                            Vintage Tech on SNAC »
                                                            @vintagetech@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                            Hey guys 👋 it's me , I finally got access to my account

                                                              The Real Grunfink »
                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                              Hi, Santiago. I've checked the code and found that there is a glitch in 's Mastodon API, and the "follow requests must be approved" boolean is not returned correctly (as the 'locked' boolean).

                                                              I'll fix it, thanks for reporting.

                                                                Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                                @santi@go.lema.org

                                                                @MonaApp@mastodon.social When posting to followers only in Mona I see this warning saying anyone can follow me. This is not the case as I now require approval of followers.

                                                                Is there any specific API endpoint that Mona uses that needs to be implemented for this to go away ? I now use by @grunfink@comam.es as my instance server.

                                                                Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

                                                                Alt...Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

                                                                  The Real Grunfink »
                                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                  Hi. I don't have access to any Apple phone, so I'm unable to do any test, but I of course would like it to work as better as possible.

                                                                  I've heard that an app called Mona works acceptably, but I have no idea. I also heard that an iOs app named tooot works; this one also has an Android version, I did some shallow tests with it and it seems to work.

                                                                  Personally, on my mobile phone, I use 's web UI from Android Firefox, and it works perfectly (in fact, for me, if something has an acceptable WWW suport, I install no mobile app, but I'm somewhat of an unfrozen caveman).

                                                                    Menel :xmpp: »
                                                                    @menel@snikket.de

                                                                    @santi@go.lema.org
                                                                    That's interesting. I would guess something inefficient with how the app loads it all. I'm not seeing that with the fedilab app.

                                                                      Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                                      @santi@go.lema.org

                                                                      Still don’t understand what does exactly on my 2 cores when I reload the timeline. Same happens with 4 or 32 threads. Except with 4 the jobs pile up.

                                                                      No visible disk i/o. Network i/o is handled well with increased timeout. If I don’t use my mobile app cpu cools down. But every load from app causes high load for many minutes, even after load ended.

                                                                      Maybe I should test this locally instead of cheap OVH VPS ?

                                                                      Alt...Shellfish iOS shows a terminal

                                                                        The Real Grunfink »
                                                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                        Due to decades of experience per programmer, state-of-the-art development processes and a diligent QA department, you can write /etc/hosts (or even /etc/passwd) in a post and let the verb be spread to the world.

                                                                        Not so in other platforms:

                                                                        https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack

                                                                          daltux »
                                                                          @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                                          Não fiz migração porque continuo paralelamente com :mastodon: @daltux@ayom.media, mas consta que dá, sim, pra migrar de para e vice-versa! 😎 :takeMyMoney:

                                                                          CC: @santiago@masto.lema.org

                                                                            daltux »
                                                                            @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                                            @luck@snac.brigadadigital.tec.br @bio@snac.brigadadigital.tec.br Acharam bom o com mais de um usuário? 😎

                                                                              Ángel »
                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                              Hace unos días puse en marcha este bot: @palabra@triptico.com . Saca la palabra del día de la página del Diccionario de la Lengua Española de la R.A.E. y la envía como un post público, una vez al día, por la mañana (zona horaria de España). También se puede acceder mediante RSS.

                                                                              Con el software de ActivityPub que uso () es muy fácil montar cosas de estas.

                                                                                daltux »
                                                                                @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                                                📅 Teste de publicação agendada no para 22h25min UTC-3, funcionalidade incluída na versão 2.75.

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