manmachine.me 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.

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sound effects record number 32
Admin account
@max@manmachine.me

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[?]:foundation: Ethan Black :starting_dvd: » 🌐
@golemwire@social.golemwire.com

Uh?

@grunfink@comam.es what does it mean when mentions don't turn into links? (Maybe tags still work... )

    [?]Rhinos Worry Me » 🌐
    @RhinosWorryMe@climatejustice.social

    @grunfink

    Is it possible to have my snac instance use TOR to federate *and* to have it available over clearweb at the same time?

    Would this mean that my instance pulls data from other instances using TOR, but other instances would only use the clearweb to pull data from me, so they could be blocked at the national level?

      [?]Paul SomeoneElse » 🌐
      @pkw@snac.d34d.net

      is a GREAT example of how something can be degrowthed
      for good.

      At first after using snac (coming from mastodon for example),
      you feel like the UI is too minimal. Then you realize it's not
      minimal at all, it's just getting out of your way.

      You focus on the messages and not on the interface.

        [?]marina » 🌐
        @marina@azulmarina.xyz

        excuse me @grunfink@comam.es, could I get some clarification?

        snac(8) states that

        Emoji values can also be URLs to image files; in this case, they will not be substituted in the post content, but added to the 'tag' array as an ActivityPub standard 'Emoji' object (it's recommendable that the Emoji key be enclosed in colons for maximum compatibility with other ActivityPub implementations, like e.g. :happydoggo:). These images can be served from an external source or from the static directory of the instance admin.
        I'm just wondering how to achieve this. At first I tried the following, thinking the search path would default to the static directory:
        {
        ...
        "nixos": "nixos-logo.png",
        }
        however, it did not work; is the right way to go about this using a file:// URL schema?


          [?]Paul SomeoneElse » 🌐
          @pkw@snac.d34d.net

          If someone I follow "likes" content, is that enough to
          bring it into my timeline?

          (content that seemingly should not show up on my
          page.)

            [?]p » 🌐
            @p@hj.9fs.net

            @angel@triptico.com


            a snac user stole your art achievement

            Alt...a snac user stole your art achievement

              [?]Paul Martin » 🌐
              @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

              Problems with @pachli@mastodon.social and . Images don't always get fetched in the timeline, and Pachli assumes the format of timeline markers and throws an exception.

              Pachli debug log, showing it's trying to parse a timeline marker as a date.

              Alt...Pachli debug log, showing it's trying to parse a timeline marker as a date.

                [?]Pachli » 🌐
                @pachli@mastodon.social

                @nowster That's a bug. The marker should be returned as a Datetime, documented here: docs.joinmastodon.org/api/date. Based on the error message it looks like it's returning $milliseconds.$nanoseconds since the epoch.

                I've reported this as codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/is.

                  [?]Santiago, né ? :amiga: 👾 » 🌐
                  @santi@gone.lema.org

                  @ploum @stefano I absolutely did for a while too. At some point I switched to Gotosocial because of issues with my iOS clients (likely fixed since then).

                  I do keep a my old #snac instance alive as an archive and update it just as easily as in the past years with that little script that just fetches the source and compiles.

                  A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

                  Alt...A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

                    amlor boosted

                    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

                    Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

                    That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

                      [?]ploum » 🌐
                      @ploum@mamot.fr

                      @stefano : is really fascinating.

                      I wonder if minimalist people could use it to completely replace their Mastodon use, in the long term too (maintainance, keeping up with changes in API, etc)

                        ManMachine boosted

                        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                        @grunfink@comam.es

                        Well, I started developing in the Summer of 2022 (with previous experience) and I still find ActivityPub somewhat confusing 😉

                          [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                          @grunfink@comam.es

                          Anyone can post anything to a person's inbox. However, does a lot of checks to see if this post deserves to be here, e.g., if you are explicitly mentioned, if it's from someone you follow, if it's a reply to a conversation between people you follow, if it contains a hashtag you follow, etc. There are many more conditions. If none matches, the message is dropped with a log message similar to "post xxxx not for us".

                          On the other, whenever a post from someone you follow gets in, snac tries to retrieve (following the inReplyTo fields chain) all the conversation up to the beginning to give you some context in the conversation. It may happen that, if that account you follow deletes their post, the replied post is left in your timeline, for no apparent reason.

                            [?]Paul SomeoneElse » 🌐
                            @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                            Can people "post" stuff to a person's INBOX if
                            they don't have any relationship? (in ActivityPub)

                            That might explain why I have a single instance snac
                            server, and still get basically spam posts.

                            I know I get something similar to that when there is
                            like a secondary relationship thru someone i am following.
                            But these things I see seemingly have no connecting relationships.



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                              lori boosted

                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                              @max@manmachine.me

                              4lyfe

                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                Hi, teajaygrey!

                                The best way to include links with unusual characters in is to use the Markdown syntax for links, like in East of Eden.

                                That is, an open square bracket, then the alt text, then the open bracket, then the url, then the close bracket (see snac(5) for more info).

                                  [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                  You're welcome! Enjoy your

                                    [?]:foundation: Ethan Black :starting_dvd: » 🌐
                                    @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                                    I got some custom emoji set up on my tasty :sheik_dab:

                                    I now also have a favicon :thonk: (goodbye Susie :cap_salute:) and I overhauled my config :nervous_sweat: Fun!

                                      [?]gmc » 🌐
                                      @gmc@snac.chasmcity.net

                                      The update of the port of to 2.95 has been merged! And it's even been merged into the current quarterly branch. I guess that's because of the patched DOS vulnerability.

                                      Screenshot of the snac entry on the FreeBSD website, showing it is at verson 2.95.

                                      Alt...Screenshot of the snac entry on the FreeBSD website, showing it is at verson 2.95.

                                        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                        This thing is a bit or a mess

                                          ozzi boosted

                                          [?]p » 🌐
                                          @p@hj.9fs.net

                                          Sometimes people like to say that the 'likes' in the FEDIVERSE don't mean anything. Maybe to some.

                                          If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                          mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                                          Alt...mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                                            [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                            @grunfink@comam.es

                                            it could be possible to hack to run on a machine
                                            Sadly, no. I wish it was possible, but as far as I know, due to a technical decision I took in the design (using hard links for many things), snac does not work under 9front.

                                            CC: @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

                                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                              Because it's technically impossible to set up a Fediverse server with absolutely no AI code underneath whatsoever
                                              Well, that's not totally exact. I'm the main developer of the ActivityPub server (and web client) and I'm actively against any AI or LLM. This is a line in the CONTRIBUTING.md file:
                                              PRs, diff patches and bug reports must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.
                                              I've never used a so-called AI in my life and will never do.

                                              If I recall correctly, the Gotosocial Fediverse software also have a very clear position in this topic (i.e. no AI).

                                              You're very right in the OS positions regarding LLMs, sadly. The nearest to what I approve is NetBSD, but it's not totally clean.

                                                Tomáš boosted

                                                [?]p » 🌐
                                                @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                [?]p » 🌐
                                                @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                fam: did you know that you can share direct urls to snac users' posts and hide the bio?

                                                just append the url with ?terse=true

                                                behold and compare the results!
                                                https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
                                                https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true


                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

                                                  I've upgraded in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

                                                  The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

                                                  codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

                                                    [?]p » 🌐
                                                    @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                    my could take your snac in a fight 10/10 times

                                                      [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                      I've just published version 2.95 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

                                                      Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

                                                      Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

                                                      Added some fixes to media proxy code.

                                                      Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

                                                      Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

                                                      Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

                                                      Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

                                                      Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

                                                      Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

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

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


                                                        [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                                        Hi everyone. Yesterday, many instances had a failure in the notifications area: accessing it was impossible. I have not much information about what the problem is, but it seems it's related to a specially crafted post that makes snac hang. If this is happening to you, and you have access to snac's disk storage, you can delete manually the files inside the notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).

                                                        Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.

                                                        Sorry for the inconvenience.

                                                          amlor boosted

                                                          [?]p » 🌐
                                                          @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                          The official achivements list (so far).

                                                          ft. big update - over 100 new achievements!

                                                          https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                          get snacpilled achievement

                                                          Alt...get snacpilled achievement

                                                            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                            @grunfink @nina_kali_nina FediMeteo does, thanks to !

                                                              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                              Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?
                                                              Even more: , an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.

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

                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                is the powerful war rig in the army against the axis of biased social networks; is the little buffoon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.


                                                                  [?]ltning » 🌐
                                                                  @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                                                  @gourd My alter ego @ltning runs on a 486. Yes, the actual #snac server instance. And also X11. :) "Fast" or "snappy" are not applicable adjectives, though.

                                                                    [?]pat [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                    @pat@patpatpat.xyz

                                                                    Love

                                                                    I kept fat-thumbing when trying to open content warning'd/hidden posts on me phone...but I realised I can just edit the style.css to add a bigger margin. I should probably check out some of the proper stylesheets people have made (but there is something very rad about the default theme)

                                                                      [?]thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him] » 🌐
                                                                      @thedaemon@snac.9front.club

                                                                      I forgot which clients work as I don't use any. anyone can help my new user with an app for snac? Which phone OS are you using?

                                                                      CC: @the_coffee_lover@snac.9front.club

                                                                        [?]Tyrone Slothrop [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                                        @slothrop@chaos.social

                                                                        @the_coffee_lover yes! I
                                                                        set up a instance just a few weeks ago.

                                                                        It’s been purring along nicely, without ever giving me any trouble.

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