I've just enjoyed [this fascinating conversation](
Fireside Fedi
Episode 12 - Stefano Marinelli - FediMeteo & BSD.cafe - Livestream 2025-04-28
Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 12 of Fireside Fedi! I
 ) between @Fireside Fedi and @Stefano Marinelli, where the latter explains how he planted the seed of the incredibly friendly, great and extense community that is the BSD Cafe. Open source, owning you own data and the importance of interconnecting people is talked about here. Of course, Stefano also talked about
FediMeteo - Weather Forecasts on the Fediverse
Real-time weather updates for the Fediverse covering 38 countries
, his great project that makes weather information available to the whole Fediverse; this makes me, as the developer of #snac (one of the pieces of software that operates Fedimeteo), also a bit proud of being a part of. As Stefano says, "you can't describe passion", but you can feel it from his words.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.74 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes a lot of web UI translations by lovely people and a bit of minor tweaks and fixes: 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).
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.73 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes: 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).
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A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
 If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay:
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.72 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes: 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.
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A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
 If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay:
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 #snacAnnounces This release has been inspired by the song [Songe d'un ange](
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Songe d'un ange by Kyrie Kristmanson, Brendan Perry
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 ) by #KyrieKristmanson and #BrendanPerry.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.70 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes: Notifications are now shown in a more compact way (i.e. all reactions are shown just above your post, instead of repeating the post *ad nauseam* for every reaction). New command-line option unmute to, well, no-longer-mute an actor. The private timeline now includes an approximate mark between new posts and "already seen" ones. Fixed a spurious 404 error in the instance root URL for some configurations.
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snac2
A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
 If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay:
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Author of the snac ActivityPub instance server and other pieces of singular software. Not a real Grünfink.
 #snacAnnounces This release has been inspired by the song [The Answers to the Questions](
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The Answers to the Questions by Chrystabell & David Lynch
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, a...
 ) by #Christabell and #DavidLynch.
Sysadmin extraordinaire Stefano Marinelli (@Stefano Marinelli) has written this great, concise article on how to tune #nginx to improve #snac performance while serving media like images or videos.
Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache - IT Notes
#Mastodon is the powerful war rig in the #Fediverse army against the axis of biased social networks; #snac is the little buffon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes. #CrazyFediverseAnalogies