voidq.xyz 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.
Poking around...
i wonder how #mastodon 's trending feed is generated (i already hate this word for a reason
but anyway), and if #snac has got the same feature, cuz it's so far been my source to know what's happening (mostly in the west) and folk's wisdom related to it or not, and occasional lovely human made crafts
yeah gotta read the docs and source since i'm another dev.. but TIME 
so searching for a fedi microblogging backend or suite, almost compromising (rude) to mastodon (accurately, glitch) or pleroma, i almost fatefully got to know about #snac
while i still need further research or actually play around with it, it seems to have passed a lot of my requirements
:
+ lightweight
+ mature
+ still growing
+ multiuser
+ masto compat
+ repo on codeberg
+ author uses it
+ written in C (which i wanna learn)
+ #noai 💯
you can't know how i'm excited now..
But... what a process... (۳˚Д˚)۳
It's so emblematic of what doing anything in IT feels like.
Let's go through it?
The main snac repo links to a bunch of custom themes, each of which is a .css file.
There is no clear indication on where to put the file, but a style.css exists in the data directory, and digging a bit seems to confirm that replacing the file should apply the custom theme instead.
I did that, but the page then appeared like unstyled HTML.
More digging around, checking the page source... it sometimes seemed to mention the theme by name, but the href to the stylesheet was empty? Maybe I overlooked something?
Tried to put a user-specific style.css instead, made sure permissions are OK, checked what gets returned by curl etc etc ... nothing seemed to work. Nothing made sense.
I gave up. Deleting the custom .css and restarting snac recreates the default .css file.
One last try: I copied and pasted the contents of the custom theme into the default .css, then deleted the default values.
Maybe at first the browser had something cached, because it still didn't show a change (even with a "hard-reload"...)
I thought "This can't be." and tried putting the custom css alongside the defaults, but changing the text alignment of the username to "left" instead of "center", just to see if the changes would take effect.
And there it was, the custom theme!
So now it's applied, and I have no idea why this took like 2 hours of pulling hair.
All is well that ends well.
Just a bit frustrating when there's no "a-ha!" because I didn't find what was wrong after all.
Anyways, enough rambling for today. Take care. :)
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.93 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/33311
GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thanks to violette, hanchan, inz, lainsoykaf, nullenvk, e0w0e, dragondaddy, daltux, zen and anyone else I may have missed for also contributing to the improvements in this release!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
boostedAdded a new admirations entry point to the web UI, containing a timeline of liked, boosted and reacted posts. Please take note that, after installing the new version, it will start empty, and be filled with subsequent reactions (contributed by violette).
It's now possible to disable showing posts in a given set of languages.
Nested quoted posts are limited up to 3 levels.
New configuration knob: by setting keep_replies_posts to true in server.json, remote posts that a local user has replied to are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).
New configuration knob: by setting keep_replied_me to true in server.json, remote replies to local posts are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).
Ensure actors' public key PEM never includes anything after the end marker.
Fixed some memory leaks (contributed by inz).
Several additional keyId checks (many thanks to lainsoykaf for bringing this to my attention).
Fixed crash in the JSON parser (many thanks to nullenvk for bringing this to my attention).
Mastodon API: fixed lost custom emojis after edition (contributed by e0w0e).
Updated French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish translations (contributed by dragondaddy, daltux, zen).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
Toot, the Mastodon CLI client, works fine with Snac. Of course :)
RE: https://poliversity.it/@devconf/116792507141709633
A tutti gli amici che parteciperanno alla DevConf Italia: potrete seguire le previsioni meteo di Pavia direttamente dal Fediverso e da Delta Chat, nonché da sito web o feed RSS, da FediMeteo.
Sito: https://it.fedimeteo.com/pavia
Account Fediverse: @pavia
Canale Delta Chat: https://i.delta.chat/#39D39283B059D042F8991D73E3BA5DA4B5C5143B&v=3&x=EkZVVGPtEQe7P29NGC0Cj5Dd&j=RHh2965YcHFa4mVgfzS_rjxk&s=yR1k6-A0Swj-ZBL3VR9REow4&a=qpe4x4nnk%40chatmail.bsd.cafe&n=FediMeteo+Italy&b=FediMeteo+·+Pavia
Vi ricordo inoltre che il 7 Luglio alle ore 16:25 presenterò "FediMeteo, i BSD e il Fediverso: sotto il sole, senza nuvole, liberi e connessi" - proprio su FediMeteo e sugli strumenti di comunicazione liberi e decentralizzati.
Non mancate!
#DevConf #DevConfItalia #FediMeteo #DeltaChat #snac #snac2 #Fediverso #Fediverse #OwnYourData
#runsnac #snac2 #fediverse #alternatives #opensource
CC: @VasiliWz@hachyderm.io
Nooiiceeee!!! Native push notifications for #snac2 on iPhone seems to work
@gyptazy made this in https://gyptazy.com/blog/snac2-native-push-notification-support/
Run #snac!
lynx. 
However, each API client that I try fails loading custom emojis, I cannot understand why and I do not know if it is something specific with my server setup or if they have some
dealing with all SNAC instances. For Android, #Fedilab from #FDroid is what I would recommended anyway. 
Huh. I've never seen that before. In the #snac web interface, it shows up as a #WebMention.
Pity @tut isn't being developed anymore. :'(
Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.
What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)
#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster
What's your preferred clients for the Unix terminal (must be cross-platform, not Linux-only, for goodness, sake! 😅) and Android?
I've noticed that @tut@fosstodon.org and @pachli@mastodon.social (and other @Tusky@mastodon.social forks) don't quite like snac, and tend to act a wee bit cagey. ;)
If I'm following a person, their post will show up for sure, but sometimes not the post it's replying to. In this case I can still follow a link back to the original instance. (Which is a way of "getting around" in and of itself.)
I think part of this might be because snac is conservative in terms of caching, whereas Mastodon is apparently very aggressive about it. So while snac is very lightweight (which is its main point) on Mastodon it would feel less insular. Hashtags on a semi-large Mastodon instance can be used to see a lot of posts from people you don't follow, but on this snac instance it's almost pointless to filter by hashtag.
Conversely, I have no idea who might be able to see this post here, just because they follow the Fediverse hashtag or so...?
I assume one way to get more input might be to follow more people. But then the feed would be way too busy. So perhaps an alternative would be to create a separate account on the same instance that follows a ton of people, which would cause the snac server to retrieve their posts (or know about the server?), and then I guess that should improve things somewhat even on this account, making hashtags more usable and seeing more replies or reply parent-posts.
As I said, I'd love if anyone with more knowledge about the Fediverse or Activity Pub etc. could enlighten me a bit.
snac is rather awesome software. It's lightweight, exceedingly fast and just works.
Thanks @grunfink@comam.es (and other contributors to the project).
I've used Tusky before, and I know that works with snac, but I'm not sure if there might be some better options with a good, user-friendly UI. If there's anything that shows "Favorites" as a thumbs up, or Boosts as "Share", might make for an easier transition.
Das bedeutet, dass ich mit Snac wirklich sehr zufrieden bin. Snac ist ideal für eine private Instanz und kann ich wirklich Empfehlen.