microhive.social 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.
I'll fix it, thanks for reporting.
Is there any specific API endpoint that Mona uses that needs to be implemented for this to go away ? I now use #snac by @grunfink@comam.es as my instance server.
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 #snac'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).
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 ?
/etc/hosts
(or even /etc/passwd
) in a #snac 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
Follows at 1209 of 1373
Followers at 794 of (maybe 1k?) .
I know it takes times and I will just wait & I suppose just retry the import.
Old mastodon page shows old account still has 268 followers that have yet to migrate. Might just be dead accounts.
What was more laborious was importing all the emojis. I had to resort to macros to build the emoji.json and a bunch of curl calls to get every image to destination server into the static folder of the admin user (me).
Thanks again @grunfink@comam.es for #snac
Have a nice #snac experience!
Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).
The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.
Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.
Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers
.
Added a new snac-admin
helper script (contributed by shtrophic).
In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden>
tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.
Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by #MichelleGurevich.
After reading the questions you ask, I don't think #snac will meet your needs. One by one:
• If A blocks B, B will still see A's posts, unless A's account is private.
• Reporting is not possible (yet).
• There is no way to create a local-only post.
• There is a local instance timeline.
• There is no federated timeline.
• There are no moderation tools. The admin can delete a rogue user, that's all.
• There is no character limit for posts; you can paste Tolstoi's War and Piece in a post, if you like (not that I encourage that).
• Full instances can be blocked (from the command-line, as it's an admin option).
So, I'm sorry.
CC: @alderwick@merveilles.town @oppen@merveilles.town @zoy@merveilles.town
So, please everyone, don't use #snac on an sshfs mount.
CC: @giacomo@snac.tesio.it @khm@hj.9fs.net @Velveteen@labyrinth.zone
CC: @giacomo@snac.tesio.it @khm@hj.9fs.net @Velveteen@labyrinth.zone
The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.
With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac #snac2 #Mastodon #Pleroma etc.
More information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
#fedi #community #fediworld #federated #opensource #fedirelay
You can also increase the logging level to 2, it may tell something more.
CC: @ploum@mamot.fr
Added Spanish (default, Argentina and Uruguay) translation (contributed by gnemmi).
Added Czech translation (contributed by pmjv).
Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (contributed by daltux).
Added Finnish translation (contributed by inz).
Added French translation (contributed by Popolon).
Added Russian translation (contributed by sn4il).
Added Chinese translation (contributed by mistivia).
Added German translation (contributed by zen and Menel).
Added Greek translation (contributed by uhuru).
Added Italian translation (contributed by anzu).
Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/custom_emojis (contributed by violette).
Improved Undo+Follow logic (contributed by rozenglass).
Reverted (temporarily) the Markdown code that converted text between underscores to italics, because it was causing more problems that what it was worth.
Fixed bug in bookmark CSV import.
Don't indent Twitter-like "threads" (i.e. chains of short posts from the same author that are self-replies).
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
You're welcome!
I have it in my name field in #mastodon at nerdculture.de so it can definitely work in mastodon.if it is added at all. https://nerdculture.de/@menel
But it doesn't work with my current main profile with #snac but I love that I can add custom emojis there at all.
You, people, are GREAT. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for this!! #snac
Release Notes
2.73
New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.
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!
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).
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
I already wrote about caching here
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling 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 mastodonapi or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2 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 actaully 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 old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add to the snac Virtualhost config:
<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">This will use the disk cache to cache everything under the /s/, /x/ and /y/ Path, as well as for /$username/nodeinfo20, utilizing the mod_expires to generate the appropriate cache headers (for lazy ones like me), In this case caching it for 1 day.
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 defaults to set no-cache
on that location and the modexpires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as modexpores woud. (mod_expires 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
Basically, all threads work in the same way. There are four states: stopped
, waiting
, input
or output
. It's almost impossible to see the first one, as it's only set while initializing or shutting down; input
is also seen rarely, unless the instance posting the data is specially slow. So they are usually waiting
except while in the «send storm», when they are mostly in output
mode. Anyway, even in this case, an incoming message has preference over everything, and the first available thread will serve it.
#snac sets up as many threads as cores are available, but being that the thread work is basically network I/O bound (there is very few CPU work to be done), you can increase the number of threads to twice or more the number of cores and performance will be slightly improved.
Interesting photo!
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:
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.
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.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This release has been inspired by the song Songe d'un ange by #KyrieKristmanson and #BrendanPerry.