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.

Admin email
snac@chven.us

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[?]Christoph »
@chris@social.shtrophic.net

Question about : does snac send out Activitypub Deletes when one user's content is purged? So, is the content only deleted locally or also in the Fediverse?

    [?]The Real Grunfink »
    @grunfink@comam.es

    I love independent proposals, so next release of will include support for Webmention. It's a protocol built on top of web standards and part of the IndieWeb. It helps web page maintainers and bloggers to know when one of their URLs are mentioned in other platforms by providing a webhook to receive notifications. In snac's case, all links written in a Fediverse post (directly or using the Markdown format) will be tested for Webmention endpoints and notified if they exist.

    I don't know how many web sites out there implement Webmention (I guess very few), but given that it has been very simple to implement, here it is.

    Long live the non-big-tech Internet.


      [?]Rav Sha'ul »
      @ravshaul@mastodon.social

      Who runs a server I can join? I'm strongly interested in trying

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        [?]sam »
        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

        Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

        https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


          [?]The Real Grunfink »
          @grunfink@comam.es

          Hi. Next release will include a new field in server.json named favicon_url, that will allow to set the default favicon. For now, you can configure your HTTP frontend to serve $YOUR_HOST/favicon.ico to whatever icon you want.

            [?]thedaemon »
            @thedaemon@snac.9front.club

            how to change the favicon on snac? I seem to only be able to update it on the greetings page, didn't see any reference in the man pages.

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              [?]stu »
              @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

              How come on software, when I tap on like or reshare it collapse kind of


                [?]sam »
                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

                  [?]sam »
                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                  Part of running a instance on a 256MB Raspberry Pi is working out how to do "stuff" without installing more packages than you have RAM for.

                  Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...

                  https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686

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                    [?]daltux »
                    @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                    A publicação acima sofreu um :bug: do que já conheço mas sempre esqueço pelo qual, ao editar uma publicação pela API (foi no ), perdem-se as referências das citações e de hashtags. Editando novamente pelo próprio Snac, felizmente retornam.

                    CC: @aptitude@qoto.org @cadusilva@bolha.one

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                      [?]stu »
                      @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                      Hi @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk you're running software correct?

                      Is it easy to install?

                        [?]Conny Duck »
                        @ConnyDuck@chaos.social

                        What is the easiest way to get a instance for testing it with Tusky

                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                          @grunfink@comam.es

                          A screenshot of a toot describing unpleasant world news in words. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]Hi, author here. The screenshot you provided shows that it's a boost by a user named Newk... if you are not following them, certainly it should not appear in your timeline. I've never seen this happen before, maybe it's some kind of strange bug. I'll investigate and get back to you if I find an explanation.

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                            [?]Jonathan Matthews »
                            @jcm@snac.bsd.cafe

                            A screenshot of a toot describing unpleasant world news in words. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I don't understand why has placed this toot in my "private" timeline (i.e. /username/admin). I don't follow the boosting account, and I don't follow any of the hashtags.

                            This isn't a question about blocking those specific hashtags or people - I know how to do that if I want. I'm trying to figure out how to drive snac so that I don't get unwanted toots thrust in my face that I didn't ask for. What am I missing?

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                              [?]Jonathan Matthews »
                              @jcm@snac.bsd.cafe

                              Screenshot of toot about unpleasant world events [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I don't understand why has placed this toot in my "private" timeline (i.e. /

                              /admin" target="_blank">https://

                              /

                              /admin). I don't follow the boosting account, and I don't follow any of the hashtags.

                              This isn't a question about blocking those specific hashtags or people - I know how to do that if I want. I'm trying to figure out how to drive snac so that I don't get unwanted toots thrust in my face that I didn't ask for. What am I missing?

                                [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                When receives a post from someone you follow, it also tries to retrieve the posts it's a reply to, up to the first one, to provide some context (and show the conversation as a tree).

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                                  [?]Jonathan Matthews »
                                  @jcm@snac.bsd.cafe

                                  A oddity; why does my view of the timeline of toots from folks I follow show me replies from folks I follow but when they're talking to people I /don't/?

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                                    [?]Jonathan Matthews »
                                    @jcm@snac.bsd.cafe

                                    Ok - I'm giving (.bsd.cafe) a proper shake as my main fedi account. I still can't get the app to add it as an account, so I'm going to use the webUI for now.

                                    If you're seeing this via a boost from my other account then please consider following the boosted account directly, as I won't be boosting its toots particularly often! ❤️

                                      [?]ティージェーグレェ »
                                      @teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe

                                      I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.78 here:

                                      https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28613

                                      I'm not sure why, but it seems as if the GitHub Continuous Integration checks are just... hanging? They were queued for a really long time and I stopped looking and when I checked again it was like "running" or whatever for 9 hours, but clearly probably nothing is actually happening.

                                      Builds locally OK!

                                      It's been a couple of days since I submitted that PR, and my apologies for lagging upstream as well. My life has been kinda, off.

                                      I'll probably get around to emailing the MacPorts' dev mailing list if it still seems to be stalled and no one else beats me to it. Presumably, eventually, it will get merged!

                                      Thanks again to you and others (e.g. dandelions, postscriptum, piefed) for the continued improvements!



                                        [?]thedaemon »
                                        @thedaemon@snac.9front.club

                                        How to block instances in snac2?

                                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                          You're welcome, enjoy your !

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                                            [?]Menel :xmpp: »
                                            @menel@snikket.de

                                            Looking at my snac status for debugging landlock, I've seen quite some 403 errors. It seems cloudflare doesn't like the snac user agent? (If I attribute that typical phrase correctly)
                                            Well I don't like cloudflare, so we're good I think.

                                            |sort|uniq -c

                                                337 https://furry.engineer/inbox (403 Forbidden) [<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment
                                            91 https://gimmeloli.cc/inbox (403 Forbidden) [<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment
                                            169 https://pawb.fun/inbox (403 Forbidden) [<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment
                                            116 https://pixelfed.social/f/inbox (403 Forbidden) [<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment

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                                              [?]FediMeteo »
                                              @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                              All the instances have been updated to 2.78


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                                                [?]Menel :xmpp: »
                                                @menel@snikket.de

                                                So i've just upgraded to snac2 V2.78 and while reading the upgrade process again stumbled (again) over the Linux landlock feature.
                                                I'm now wondering if I should compile it with this, and what security it adds additionally to a systemd service file with all the restrictions about the filesystem and syscalls one can do.
                                                Do I need to configure anything with landlock to "activate" it when I compile it in? I didn't yet find the right documentation that I can understand for it it seems.
                                                Does snac somehow "know" what to landlock and which paths to allow before landlocking itself, maybe reading my config file before that happens?

                                                (never know which tag to use here :) )

                                                  [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                  I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.78 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                  Hashtag following also allow URLs to RSS feeds of ActivityPub objects (like e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/ThankYouTuesday).

                                                  Users can now configure a webhook to receive an HTTP POST for every notification. This can be useful for implementing bots that react to activities, like autorepliers, chatbots or interactive textual games (see snac(1) for more information).

                                                  The number of pending follow confirmations is shown next to the "people" link.

                                                  Faster performance metrics (contributed by dandelions).

                                                  Improved lowercasing in hashtags (contributed by postscriptum).

                                                  A search-by-url tweak for implementations that return 200 for invalid webfinger queries (e.g. piefed).

                                                  Mastodon API: added follow confirmation endpoints, fixed collisions in attachment file names.

                                                  Fixed potential crashes in attachment uploads.

                                                  https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                  If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                    Hi, author here. The easiest way is to configure Caddy to serve a special file as /favicon.ico, overriding snac's default.

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                                                      [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                      Oh so it seems color emoji not displaying on is a thing. I wondered why I never saw the handshake icon for followers on and now I know why.

                                                      A quick fc-list | grep -i emoji does indeed show the correct font is installed.

                                                      /usr/local/share/fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular

                                                      https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1atanzd/color_emoji_not_shown/

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                                                        [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                                        Does anyone have a screenshot of Gargron's first Mastodon post?
                                                        I don't have such a gem, but I have here the first post. Yes, I know the relevancy is astronomically inferior, but not for me 😆

                                                        https://comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/1666208448.560042

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                                                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                          does; it tries for entrypoints for all links in a post's text.

                                                            [?]stu »
                                                            @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                            Good afternoon fediverse and friends on

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                                                              [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                              @grunfink@comam.es

                                                              Hi, author here. Yes, the list of posts by an account is not shown through the Mastodon API, as it could be slow. Maybe someday.

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                                                                [?]🏳️‍🌈🤘 Blain Smith »
                                                                @blainsmith@snac.rblgk.sh

                                                                So weird. Tusky won't display my own posts running on my own snac instance when I look at my profile.


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                                                                  [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                  I'm sorry, but no ( author here).

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                                                                    [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                    I use to populate my feed. Just type in a hashtag that you wish to follow and then copy and paste the link into the follow section on .

                                                                    https://relay.fedi.buzz/

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                                                                      [?]lorenzo »
                                                                      @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

                                                                      Is it possible to block federation with entire instances not for single user but for the whole instance in ?

                                                                      In the docs i can't find anyhing about it.

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                                                                        [?]✰ 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕕 ✰ »
                                                                        @fd0@social.freebsd.amsterdam

                                                                        Thank you for all the effort you are putting into this awesome software.

                                                                        I ran into some weird behaviour of the combination with the official Mastodon app on . See attached pic.

                                                                        The log of my shows

                                                                        May 12 09:50:20 localhost haproxy[56626]: 46.23.94.142:65241 [12/May/2025:09:50:20.039] FE-https~ BE-social.freebsd.amsterdam/social.freebsd.amsterdam 0/0/0/366/367 200 658007 - - ---- 2/2/0/0/0 0/0 "GET https://social.freebsd.amsterdam/api/v1/timelines/home?limit=100 HTTP/2.0"

                                                                        CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe @cheeaun@mastodon.social

                                                                          [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                          I announce the release of version 2.77 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It just reverts a feature included in previous version; links in posts were also included as attachments, but, while harmless and on spec, it made posts look ugly in some platforms, and what the world doesn't need is more ugly things.

                                                                          https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                          If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


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                                                                            [?]The Real Grunfink »
                                                                            @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                            The last release fixes a problem with the Mastodon API. Now, apps (or webapps like Phanpy) properly work as the "inifite scrolling" has been fixed.
                                                                            Thanks, Stefano. To be fair, the merit for this fix goes to @cheeaun@mastodon.social (Phanpy's author), who brought to my attention where the problem was.

                                                                              [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                              @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                              The last release fixes a problem with the Mastodon API. Now, apps (or webapps like Phanpy) properly work as the "inifite scrolling" has been fixed.
                                                                              Thanks, @grunfink - this was one thing that kept some of my friends away from self-hosting with snac, and now I can help them to have their own digital home.

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