chven.us 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.
Just installed #snac on my Debian server from the backports package. Thanks to @grunfink for Snac and to @jvalleroy and to @sergiodj for packaging it. The packaging worked almost out of the box (needed adjustment because the httpd had a more complex configuration, but really minimal tweaks).
One thing I did change: I moved the data directory to a subdirectory of the home directory, to avoid leaking e.g. history.
I wonder if this is over-paranoid and pointless.
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the proxy_media
boolean field to server.json
to true.
The strict_public_timelines
option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.
Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
And yet it not only lets you post text and images and follow people on other servers... it interacts just fine with Mastodon, GoToSocial, PixelFed and most of the Fediverse while using hardly any RAM or processing power. And it doesn't even need cookies or JavaScript!
Very low admin tax, especially compared to Mastodon.
I'd like to give a shout-out to the author, Grunfink, who has been friendly and helpful whenever I've reported a bug or suggested a change.
edit: changes I make to style.css seem to update after a few minutes or more.