I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.
Mastodon API: fixed timelines/public (it was showing less posts that it should).
Fixed over-zealous caching to the public timeline.
This release has been inspired by the painting The Hands Resist Him by #BillStoneham.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see
GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).
Regardless, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!
Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.60 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Migration from a snac account to a Mastodon one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.
Fixed a bug in argument parsing regarding some special characters (contributed by ndagestad).
This release has been inspired by the song State of Independence versioned by #DonnaSummer.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.60 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Migration from a snac account to a Mastodon one has been implemented. Please see
It seems that there is a new wave of SPAM in the Fediverse; this will only get worse over time.
If you use #snac as your Fediverse platform, remember that you have some tools to make it less grievous: for example, the filter_reject.txt file, in the root of your snac directory, can be filled with regular expressions (one per line), that will be matched upon the content of every incoming post. If any of those lines match, the post will be dropped silently.
If you don't know what a regular expression is, don't worry; just add a sentence or text string that happens to appear in the SPAM messages you are receiving (but please take into account that this can be pretty destructive, so be very specific with these pieces of text).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.59 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added post drafts: new or edit post edition dialogs include a checkbox that will cause the message to not be posted, but stored in a list of drafts, directly accesible from the private timeline. From that list, drafts can be edited and definitely posted (or re-stored as a draft for later editing).
Fixed a bug that caused Block notifications to not be shown properly.
Fixed crash in a corner case of the URL parameter parsing code.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.59 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added post drafts: new or edit post edition dialogs include a checkbox that will cause the message to not be posted, but stored in a list of drafts, directly accesible from the private timeline. From that list, drafts can be edited and definitely...
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.58 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Search by content also looks into alt-text from attachments (images, videos, etc.).
Search by content is case insensitive for all Unicode-supported alphabets (previously was only for ASCII characters).
Added support for bookmarking posts.
Fixed a failed compilation under Solaris/Illumos.
The actor Person object now includes a featured property, that returns the list of pinned posts.
The delete post button can now be hidden server-wise (it's not very useful and clutters the space).
The lists of pinned and bookmarked posts are directly accesible from the private timeline.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.58 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Search by content also looks into alt-text from attachments (images, videos, etc.).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.57 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added support for listening on UNIX-like sockets.
Don't allow empty polls.
Added support for Markdown-style images (converted to attachments) and strikethrough text.
Added support for incoming Move messages: when received, the new account is followed and the old one is unfollowed.
Incoming EmojiReact messages are internally converted to Like (more proper support will happen eventually).
Blocks are also notified.
Mastodon API: fixed a cache bug when following local users.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.57 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.56 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes (all of them contributions by fellow developers):
Don't show instance announcements in public timelines (contributed by sarahpw).
Added auto boosting. If an account has this flag enabled, all mentions to that account are automatically boosted to all its followers (contributed by sarahpw).
Fixed typos in manpages (contributed by sergiodj).
Some minor performance improvements (contributed by Claire).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.56 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes (all of them contributions by fellow developers):
I feel sorry and a bit unprofessional about announcing the quick release of version 2.55 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the fix to a careless change by me:
Mastodon API: fixed a last-minute bug that broke some API functions.
I apologize for any inconvenience. This week has not been very good for me, but that is no excuse.
I feel sorry and a bit unprofessional about announcing the quick release of version 2.55 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the fix to a careless change by me:
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.54 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This release includes very valuable work by fellow developer louis77, as well as other bugfixes and improvements:
Markdown-style links are now supported.
The alt text in attachments that have one is also shown in a dropdown just below it (useful for environments where mouseover is not available, i.e. for phones and tablets).
Instance-wide notifications has been implemented (contributed by louis77). A small tweak to the default CSS was made to suit this change; please consider updating your style.css (see doc/style.css as an example).
The avatar and/or the header images can now be deleted (contributed by louis77).
Code cleaning: HTTP status codes use names instead of hardcoded integers (contributed by louis77).
Mastodon API: fixed login problems with the official Mastodon API, IceCube and Toot! on iOS, some fixes for Mona and Tokodon apps, user credentials can now be edited from apps (all contributed by louis77), fixed crash on unset content-type header.
The webfinger content-type response header is now RFC-compliant (contributed by steve-bate).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.54 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This release includes very valuable work by fellow developer louis77, as well as other bugfixes and improvements:
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
Added some (partial) support for Event object types.
Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.52 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Posts that were liked or boosted can now be unliked and unboosted.
Outgoing message timeouts are no longer hardcoded and can be configured (see snac(8) for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some incorrect unfollows under special conditions (with shared inboxes enabled and users from the same instance that follow each other, the internal message distributor was confused).
Mastodon API: Added support for lists.
Added a header to avoid over-zealous caching in some browsers (contributed by louis77).
Added support for running and federating inside hidden networks like Tor, I2P or Loki (contributed by iwojima).
Fixed an error processing polls coming from Pleroma instances.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.52 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Posts that were liked or boosted can now be unliked and unboosted.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.51 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.
Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).
On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.51 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the
I find these "popularity contests" pointless, ridiculous and inherently toxic, and a signature of private social networks where the goal is not to help people communicate between each other.
This is the reason why #snac does not propagate how many followers nor likes a person have.
So it seems that, now that Threads is federating, the most popular person in the fediverse is... Mark Zuckerberg:
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.50 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt file at the server base directory; see snac(5) and snac(8)).
Improved page position after hitting the Hide or MUTE buttons (for most cases).
Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS define).
Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.
The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.
Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.
Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.50 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.49 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This time it includes some fixes to the Mastodon API code, which was in need of some love:
Mastodon API: Fixed a bug in how validated links are reported.
Mastodon API: Fixed a bug in search by account.
Mastodon API: Fixed missing Video type objects in timelines.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.49 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This time it includes some fixes to the Mastodon API code, which was in need of some love:
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.48 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
A new instance page, that shows all posts by users in the same instance (like the public instance timeline, but interactive). This will help building communities.
Follower-only replies to unknown users are not shown in timelines.
Added verification of metadata links: if the linked page contains a link back to the snac user with a rel="me" attribute, it's marked as verified.
Added a new server-level configuration parameter: min_account_age. If this value (in seconds) is set in server.json, any activity coming from accounts that were created newer than that will be discarded. This can be used to mitigate spam.
Added a profile-page relation to links in webfinger responses (contributed by khm).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.48 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
A new instance page, that shows all posts by users in the same instance (like the public instance timeline, but interactive). This will help building communities.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.46 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added support for Peertube videos.
Mastodon API: Tweaks to support the Subway Tooter app (contributed by pswilde), added support for editing posts, fixed an error related to the edit date of a post, fixed some crashes.
Added a handshake emoji next to a user name if it's a mutual relation (follower and followed), because friendship is bliss.
Tweaked some retry timeout values for better behaviour in larger instances (thanks to me@mysmallinstance.homelinux.org for their help).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.46 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
It does this using a shared memory area, so some system restrictions may apply. I've tested on Linux and OpenBSD and it seems to work OK. You can call this command as an argument to watch or in a while true shell loop to have something like a poor-man's top utility.
This will be part of the 2.45 release. It's already in the public git repository, if any of you want to test it.
Hello, #snacizens. I've just added a somewhat cool experimental feature to #snac: a new command-line to query the state of a running server, like
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.44 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Fixed a nasty bug that caused the in-memory output queue to be corrupted under heavy traffic loads. This is a good reason to upgrade (thanks to Víctor Moral and Stefano Marinelli for helping me in fixing this).
Shared inboxes are now supported. This is not a user visible feature (hopefully, they will not feel any change), but it will significantly improve traffic for snac instances with many users and will open room for new features that are only feasible with these kind of input channels (this is not enabled by default; see snac(8)).
I've refactored all HTML code because it was somewhat of a mess; now it's much more maintainable (at least for me). I think I haven't broken anything.
Fixed crash in a special case of malformed query.
Mastodon API: some tweaks for better integration with more clients, and fixed a crash when processing boosts from kbin.
Fixed crash in the FastCGI code (thanks to Yonle for helping me debug this).
Added apache2 configuration information (contributed by Víctor Moral).
Added FreeBSD and NetBSD setup information and examples (contributed by draga79).
This release has been inspired by the album Until the Horses Come Home by #Undyed.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.44 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Fixed a nasty bug that caused the in-memory output queue to be corrupted under heavy traffic loads. This is a good reason to upgrade (thanks to Víctor Moral and Stefano Marinelli for helping me in fixing this).
Gregory's Server
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287
GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).
Regardless, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!
Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287