#snac annoyances so far:

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

Minha primeira contribuição para o projeto SNAC, o sistema que equipa esta "instância" da federação da Web Social implementando o protocolo ActivityPub, está disponível há alguns dias: sua tradução para o idioma de Machado de Assis, no arquivo pt_BR.po que pode ser copiado do repositório para o subdiretório lang dentro do diretório de dados do SNAC. Após esse tipo de arquivo estar no local e o serviço reinicializado, o usuário pode escolher o idioma da inteface Web entre suas definições.

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

I finally got #snac2 working with #Ivory and my this particular account. It’s strange, I think I’ve narrowed the crash down to an issue with the way ActivityPub relays work in snac2. If there is a single boosted post in my timeline when Ivory pulls the data, it crashes instantly.

TIL that snac2 does a great job being on the receiving end of an account transfer from mastodon.au. After a long period running a self-hosted snac instance in parallel with that account I have bitten the bullet and gone fully self-hosted. Props to snac2 and to Mastodon for making the process so painless.

#snac2 #mastodon #fedi

toot.py is now compatible with snac. wooh.

thanks to @ihabunek@mastodon.social

posted from #snac2!

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

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

Damn, I really like #snac2 so far!
Its footprint is tiny — just a few megabytes, when idle, it uses like 0.3% CPU and 0.5% RAM on this old PowerPC G4 Mac Mini with only a gigabyte of RAM.
And almost no disk IO too! Especially compared to PostgreSQL, which Pleroma uses.
Right now it's running next to Pleroma, but while Pleroma gets overwhelmed and is on the verge of dying all the time — snac2 stands its ground like that Doom Slayer against the armies of Hell

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.

Updated Version of the apache http caching setup for snac, including proxy media

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">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>

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.
Further reading and all options explained under https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/caching.html (and ff)

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 expiresheader. (hence the name I guess )

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

#snac / activitypub noob #question:

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

This number is decreasing over some minutes after I made a post,
I assume it is my instance delivering this to all subscribers, is that correct?
And the last thread will stay idle to maybe wait for incoming requests, so that they can be answered too?
I've never seen another status then waiting or output so far.

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

Can I toot with curl in #snac2 instances? can't find where to generate api keys in the admin page

I have to migrate my #snac2 instance to other server. Is there a simple way to move users and whole data dir to new host? @grunfink@comam.es