Added support for customizing and translating the web UI language via simple .po files. For more information on how to install language files or create new ones, please see snac(8) (the administrator manual).

New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.

The Content-Security-Policy HTTP header is now always sent to disable any JavaScript, instead of just being suggested in the documentation.

Image attachments in SVG format are now disabled by default; you can enable them back by setting the enable_svg value to true in server.json.

Several fixes (contributed by inz).

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

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

#snacAnnounces

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

#HowToTest

1. going to next page(s) to read unread posts from timeline. finding an interesting one, liking it, and i'm back at timeline start. any reason for this behavior? why not stay at the same page/post? if i want to also boost, i need to click-scroll-click-scroll.., depending on what page that post was... and also depending on finding that post again... :)

2. hashtags with more than 1 underscore, get truncated into none or one. check this example : https://snac.el-hoyo.net/social/uhuru/p/1742193804.038316 (in editor there are underscores after each word/number)

using latest debian package. #snac2

CC @grunfink@comam.es

have a nice day!

https://dreamscape.link/vault/public/debug/snac2/4beb5a0d464e4ad952b192f0403635ea.json

I would rather see duplicate attachments, than miss some attachments completely. This patch removes the duplication check until a smarter detection solution is made (I'm not working on one for now):

Remove faulty attachments deduplication mechanism

Attachments are skipped if they are already included
in the post content, but this sometimes mistakenly
skips images if the post content includes an anchor
that links to the image too. I'd rather see some
duplicate attachments than miss them.

Switch to mainstream micro-blogging mentions style

* Mention the replied-to message owner when replying to them.
* Remove the "CC:" and put the mentions at the beginning.

Acabo de solicitar a integração de mais uma versão do arquivo com novas sequências de caracteres traduzidas.

Estou escrevendo isto para incentivar você a também contribuir com o que puder para com os projetos de software livre que utiliza. O senso de comunidade nos permite fazer parte da construção de um mundo melhor a cada linha de código.

#snac2 #snac #SoftwareLivre #FreeAsInFreedom

     if (strcmp(type, "Undo") == 0) { /** **/
+        if (xs_type(object) != XSTYPE_DICT)
+            utype = "Follow";
+

https://dreamscape.link/vault/public/debug/snac2/1741791872.179863.json

Compare with this object, which is a real Pleroma unfollow I intentionally made:

https://dreamscape.link/vault/public/debug/snac2/1741805474.188476.json

Any thoughts or ideas? I'm familiar with C, but not enough with ActivityPub to know what is happening in this case. A quick solution that comes to mind, based on the handful of objects I've seen so far, is to check whether we're in the 'to' field before overriding the utype, but I have no idea why this whole utype override exists in the first place.

You, people, are GREAT. Thank you very much.

@grunfink@comam.es, if my patches can also be useful, use them without any problems. Everything is strictly in beta (alpha ;)

build-snac-git

#snac2 #mastodon #fedi

Thanks for all you do! #snac2

#snac learned 5 languages in only 3 days ..

🇦🇷 / 🇪🇸, 🇨🇿, 🇧🇷, 🇫🇮, 🇫🇷

What about yours?

#snac2

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/branch/master/po

there are a couple of features from GNU social that I'm missing, and that I'd like to implement, namely:

- some means to open a thread or a post from my timeline in a new browser tab, so that I can interact with it later, or keep up with a conversation without having to search for it in the timeline again. I'm thinking of turning the "date / udate" field into a link to it/them, though ATM I don't quite see what to link to. I suppose a search might work to find a single post, but there's no existing way to link to a local view of a thread AFAICT. any objections to adding these?

- it would be nice if I could like/boost/mute/etc without reloading the page, let alone be taken to the first timeline page. I'd like to be able to middle-click on these buttons so that they'd take action on another tab, and I could keep on scrolling on the current tab without waiting for it to reload, or bringing new posts, or getting back to the initial timeline page, even if we currently try to get back to the same spot

- indeed, it would be desirable IMHO for these actions to not always take you back to the admin and timeline page, but rather to the same page you're on, so that, if you're e.g. interacting with a bookmark or a search result or any other way to show a post or a thread, you remain on that page

- I liked the way notifications are marked as seen, and I'd love something like that for the timeline as well. I'm thinking I'd enjoy a view that showed me not the latest posts in the timeline, but the oldest posts more recent than the latest one marked as seen, with a button/link to mark those as seen and show another such page. then I could catch up roughly in order, rather than in reverse order. (this reminds me that diaspora had a nice feature of generating timestamp-based "earlier posts" links, so that there wouldn't be repeats as I paged over posts while new posts came in.

are any of these features something that you definitely wouldn't want to integrate into snac? or does any of these need further details for you to tell?

thanks again!

Thank you so much for this!! #snac

Release Notes
2.73
New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.

#snac @grunfink@comam.es

Alt...

Most people rejected his message. A crowd shouts: "How many followers do you have?!" The person replies: "MUTE" They hated snac because he told them the truth.

With this release, Ivory now UNOFFICIALLY supports additional fediverse platforms such as GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET, Hollo, and SNAC. I've tried it with each of these platforms with mostly success.

The better the Mastodon API support on your platform, the better your experience will be. Obviously, platform specific features like emoji reacts or reply controls aren't going to be available. Still pretty nice!

https://tapbots.social/@ivory/114110436182458268

#FediApps #GoToSocial #IceShrimpNET #Hollo #SNAC

Added support for customizing and translating the web UI language via simple .po files. For more information on how to install language files or create new ones, please see snac(8) (the administrator manual).

New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.

The Content-Security-Policy HTTP header is now always sent to disable any JavaScript, instead of just being suggested in the documentation.

Image attachments in SVG format are now disabled by default; you can enable them back by setting the enable_svg value to true in server.json.

Several fixes (contributed by inz).

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

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

#snacAnnounces

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

#FediMeteo #Fediverse #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #NoteHUB #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Web

bash to count the number of respondants to a poll in #snac2:

cat `rg $post_id | egrep '^data[^:]+' -o | grep json` |
  jq '.attributedTo | select(. != null and . != "https://your_actor")' |
  sort | uniq | wc -l

@grunfink@comam.es

At the time it's an unfair comparison as my old instance is two years old and its discovery is way wider, dozens of instances chime in every minute. I have subscribed to relays with snac2 and so far it fares very well.

I already wrote about caching here.
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling the option to proxy media, I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodon api or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2.0 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs. 🙂 (I guess it is actually irrelevant for the system resources)
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:

a2enmod expires cache cache_disk

Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up the old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add this to the httpd Virtualhost config:

<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>

The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac set no-cache on that location and mod_expires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as mod_expires would. (I use mod_expires because it will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expires header. (hence the name I guess 😀 )

#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching

job fifo size (cur): 655
job fifo size (peak): 1291
thread #0 state: waiting
thread #1 state: output
thread #2 state: output
thread #3 state: output

I guess if I post a picture that might then happen and all workers will be busy? Maybe even too busy to keep up?

Is that assumption about how the waiting worker and what it is for correct?

If yes I guess I'll increase the threads, if they are intentional low for low ram systems, that's not my issue with snac. (I've not much ram, but I assume snac is by default tuned to be very very very conservative?)

(adding Pic to simultaneously test my theory)

#snac2

Alt...

Two Monsters made out of wood and grass, standing on long legs in a lake.

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

It gives a daily report of those asteroids with a reasonable probability of crashing into Earth, in case you are not already afraid enough of the future. Of course, using #snac, what else.

It takes its data from a very cool NASA site, so (again) in these days of uncertanty, I'm not sure how long will it work.

Everyone, take care, and have a great week.

Thanks in advance ❤️

Alt...

screenshot of a follow notification in my snac fediverse instance.

@grunfink

Hi, I want to send a mention and a DM to an account but the mention and message is never arrive at destination.

the log is

15:11:52 output message: sent to inbox https://sok.egois.org/users/poes/inbox -7
15:11:52 output message: error https://sok.egois.org/users/poes/inbox -7
15:11:52 output message: sent to inbox https://snac.mojok.org/shared-inbox -7
15:11:52 output message: error https://snac.mojok.org/shared-inbox -7

trying to sent another mention to user at bsd.cafe and the result is same. The message is never arrive.

Each post can have more than one attachment from the web UI. The maximum number can be configured in server.json via the max_attachments value (default: 4).

Each notification includes a link labelled Context, that leads to a page with the full conversation tree the post is a part of.

Each followed hashtag has now a directly accesible link.

Fixed a search bug (some matches were missed).

Fixed more crashes (contributed by inz).

Fixed link detection in posts (contributed by inz).

Allow multiple editors for command-line posts (contributed by inz).

Separated maximum and default timeline entry count, allowing larger timelines to be requested without having to increase the default (contributed by lxo).

Turned message date into a link to the local post, so that it can be loaded into a separate tab for interacting with (contributed by lxo).

Special thanks to fellow developer inz for bringing my attention to code places where I should have been more careful.

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

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#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song Songe d'un ange by #KyrieKristmanson and #BrendanPerry.

Snac supports regex, but now The Question:
how do I know in what form the Regex is expected in my filter_reject.txt?
I want to block a Hashtag case insenitive
/#WhatIBlock/i
or (?i)#WhatIBlock
or maybe something else? It Seems the web is full of different ways to specify regex.

#snac #snac2 #regex #askfedi

@mms exactly. I'm still trying to finish my blog post - on how I'm pushing the weather forecasts for thousands of cities of 33 countries from a 4 euros/month VM. With 34 different snac instances. With an average load of just 20%