Not hanging around here for a long time, It seems this instance became more crowded. Not a bad things though, just @atomicpoet has done great job promoting :calckey: :calc_wink:
I hope not only #calckey that gets the spotlight alongside mastodon, but also several servers app that is more suitable for single user instances needs their spotlights too!
there are python-based #microblogpub made by @dev, it has nice and lean user interfaces and tailored only for single user.
a golang based #gotosocial, it is good software and stable enough to use daily as my main account @s4if. It supports mastodon api so you can use your favourites apps to access it.
an ansi-c based #snac made by @grunfink if you like no-nonsense html based interface.
I think there are many nerd like me outta here that (for some reasons or others) like to fully control their instance. You can try the softwares above, gotosocial and snac is very light on resources, it can be ran on cheap 512MB vps somewhere and microblogpub is also lighter than community focused apps like mastodon or calckey. cheers! :calc_innocent: :blobbonethumbsup:
I'm very glad to announce the release of version 2.27 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C. It includes some interesting new features (that I announced some days ago):
Started Mastodon API support, so you can use Mastodon-compatible apps to access #snac accounts. What works so far: login, private and public timelines, full post information (replies and ancestors), liking and boosting posts. Things that don't work yet but eventually will: following accounts, posting and replying to messages (I still have to figure out how some things work, like posting images), notifications (needs some internal support), the instance timeline (snac does not have one, but it can be simulated with not much effort) and probably many other things. Things that will never work: bookmarks, pinning, a federated timeline, many other things that I don't remember right now. Please note that if you want to use this API in your instance, you must add some lines to your HTTP proxy configuration, see the snac(8) (administrator documentation) manual page. I'm doing my tests using the #Tusky (which sometimes crashes, surely my fault), #AndStatus, #Fedilab and #Husky Android apps. Success or failure reports will be appreciated.
Fixed some buffer overflows (contributed by Saagar Jha).
Yes, #Tusky it's a bit crashy at times, but given that I've tried to fed it really broken pieces of data 😆 , I can't blame it. I've found #Husky very similar (they are probably a fork of one another, don't know the history behind), but rather more stable.
Implementing the Mastodon API will (I hope) bring more people to installing #snac in their servers, because it will provide the same service with much less machine requirements. But, I feel the way Mastodon and their apps show the timelines (as a plain list of posts, sorted by date) very dull and confusing; #snac composes the conversations as threaded trees, which I feel much more confortable and readable. But when you use an app, you lose all that.
What better way is there to bring iSH to the fediverse than by having it introduce itself? The post you're reading right now was written and served from iSH, running an instance of @grunfink's snac :)
I'm happy to announce version 2.21 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C. This time there are a bunch of things:
Users can now specify an expire time for the entries in their timelines (both their own and others').
Added support for sending notifications (replies, follows, likes, etc.) via Telegram.
Followers can now be deleted (from the people page in the web interface). Yes, to stop sending in vain your valuable and acute posts to those accounts that disappeared long ago and flood the log with connection errors.
The internal way of processing connections have been rewritten to be more efficient or, as technical people say, "scalable". This way, snac is much faster in processing outgoing connections and less prone to choke on an avalanche of incoming messages. This is a big step towards the secret and real purpose of the creation of this software: being able to host the account of #StephenKing when he finally leaves that other site.
The note action from the command-line tool can also accept the post content from the standard input.
Usage tips: never reply to toxic people (apply the MUTE button to them). Enjoy a coffee. Smell the sea. Listen to Mahler. Spend a bit less time in social media and a bit more with your loved ones.
You can see that posts are treated as conversations. The private interface is mostly the same, but you have interactive buttons to Like, Boost, Reply, Follow, etc.
Very cool how adding an editable text label with the :mastodon: logo gets the biggest centralized code hosting site — an abusive one at that, feeding all your code to train a Microsoft-owned AI — loads of free publicity around here. 🤔
Instead, I'm gonna send some love to @Codeberg and @forgejo, since they might actually implement federation for code hosting systems. :blobcatthinksmart:
As in: joining fedi, instead of just paying lip service like that other code hosting site.
Thanks! I don't have any screenshots of the interface (I know I should), but you can take a look at what the public face of a #snac account looks by peeking my own:
I'm the developer of #snac, a piece of software that implements the same protocol as Mastodon and others, so it can be used as a part of the social network nicknamed the "Fediverse". There is a new version of it (2.19), that allows you to modify your own posts and fixes a bug I introduced in the previous version regarding the processing of Hashtags. Also, some servers out there are a bit slow in their response, so this new version tries to adapt to them by waiting a bit more when retrying after a fail.
Never heard of it before, but having a Mastodon-compatible instance packaged in Debian is great. So maybe time for my own instance? 😁 Will at least toy around with it. The question is on which host. But I suspect my Raspberry Pi running Debian Unstable will do. 😎
@grunfink: The #Debian package of #snac has been updated to version 2.15. So far @xtaran ran 3 hours without issue. But then again, the previous version hadn't crashed for a while either. Let's see if it survives this mentioning. 😉
@grunfink: Ok, #SNAC is now running on my #RaspberryPi 2 running #Debian Unstable #armhf at @xtaran. (BTW, who can guess the wordplay in the hostname? 😎) The host has #IPv6 and is reachable from the Internet by #IPv6only, though. For now I'm just toying around with it, checking how the #Fediverse can look like, too, so don't expect too much from following it for now.
It's reverse-proxied by an #ApacheHTTPd as I'm an old-school guy and I know how to run Apache HTTPds since around 1999. 🧔
I think older OS X versions are missing certain libraries and functions that many depend upon? legacysupport-devel maybe would be a way to rectify that? I am uncertain. I've seen one potentially useful proposal from got at least, but haven't tested it yet.
Ok. I wanted to spend only 20 minutes to set up and check that instance, but I'm tinkering about 40 minutes already... Doesn't matter...
I think you should check out https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 (Yup, AP server on C, cc @a1ba )
First impression: this is extremely minimalistic and fast
Hi, everyone. I've just released version 2.26 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C. This is a low profile maintenance version that includes just the following minor changes:
The OpenSSL code has been refactored to avoid using deprecated functions.
Added more aggressive filtering on unwanted Announce (boost) messages.
I'm a bit embarrassed of announcing version 2.22 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C, which fixes some bugs, one of them pretty nasty:
Fixed a bug with the Delete button in the web interface: sometimes, instead of the post (as the user intended), the follower was deleted instead 🤦
Fixed a bug in the command-line option follow (and probably others), that made it fail silently if there was no running server.
Fixed a crash under OpenBSD (a recent change needed a new permission to the pledge() call that was forgotten).
Hi, everyone. I've just released version 2.24 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C, that includes the following features and bugfixes:
Sending non-public messages is now much easier: a checkbox to post a message to only those people mentioned in the message body has been added.
Fixed an over-optimization bug that caused some mentioned recipients to be skipped.
Added some new administrator tweaks: email notifications can be globally disabled.