cambrian.social 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.

Site description
Home of the Cambrian explosion
Admin email
lori@astoundingteam.com
Admin account
@lori@cambrian.social

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The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

it could be possible to hack to run on a machine
Sadly, no. I wish it was possible, but as far as I know, due to a technical decision I took in the design (using hard links for many things), snac does not work under 9front.

CC: @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

    The Real Grunfink »
    @grunfink@comam.es

    Because it's technically impossible to set up a Fediverse server with absolutely no AI code underneath whatsoever
    Well, that's not totally exact. I'm the main developer of the ActivityPub server (and web client) and I'm actively against any AI or LLM. This is a line in the CONTRIBUTING.md file:
    PRs, diff patches and bug reports must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.
    I've never used a so-called AI in my life and will never do.

    If I recall correctly, the Gotosocial Fediverse software also have a very clear position in this topic (i.e. no AI).

    You're very right in the OS positions regarding LLMs, sadly. The nearest to what I approve is NetBSD, but it's not totally clean.

      Daniil »
      @daniil@d.miku-dominant.ts.net

      Oh, and it's btw

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        BSD Cafe Announcements »
        @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

        The instance has been upgraded to 2.95

          The Real Grunfink boosted

          p »
          @p@hj.9fs.net

          fam: did you know that you can share direct urls to snac users' posts and hide the bio?

          just append the url with ?terse=true

          behold and compare the results!
          https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
          https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true


            user21t boosted

            Stefano Marinelli »
            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

            I've upgraded in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

            The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

            codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

              p »
              @p@hj.9fs.net

              my could take your snac in a fight 10/10 times

                Justine Smithies boosted

                Oliver ⚡ »
                @oliver@microhive.me

                I've just updated my instance to stable version 2.95 👍 🎉
                You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
                A simple, minimalistic and well documented instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
                Loads of bug fixes and stuff I don’t understand, but which are surely important and useful.
                Huge thanks to @grunfink@comam.es and all contributers!! 🎉


                  lorenzo »
                  @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

                  updated to latest 2.95

                  Thanks as always Mr. @grunfink@comam.es


                    thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him] boosted

                    The Real Grunfink »
                    @grunfink@comam.es

                    I've just published version 2.95 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

                    Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

                    Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

                    Added some fixes to media proxy code.

                    Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

                    Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

                    Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

                    Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

                    Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

                    Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

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

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


                      Justine Smithies boosted

                      The Real Grunfink »
                      @grunfink@comam.es

                      Hi everyone. Yesterday, many instances had a failure in the notifications area: accessing it was impossible. I have not much information about what the problem is, but it seems it's related to a specially crafted post that makes snac hang. If this is happening to you, and you have access to snac's disk storage, you can delete manually the files inside the notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).

                      Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.

                      Sorry for the inconvenience.

                        Justine Smithies »
                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                        Found the issue with freezing on notifications as this time there were only 3 when it happened. One of them is a spam message containing 100's of users on various servers coming from an actors url https://cum.salon/users/pernia
                        So I'm hoping that blocking that will help in future ?

                          Justine Smithies »
                          @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                          This issue is now resolved and thank you for your pings, pongs and dings 🤪

                          Can some kind person please reply to this test post so I can see if my notifications issue is totally resolved? ❤️

                            Justine Smithies »
                            @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                            Right I must have had a bad or corrupted notification causing my issue as just deleted all of todays notication files and I can get in notifications again. Had to run the following:

                            find /home/snac/data/user/justine/notify -type f -newermt "2026-09-01" -delete

                            Hopefully I can click on the new notifications that come in now ?


                              Justine Smithies »
                              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                              Hmm great! I can't read any of my notifications on my instance as of today. I can read any other page except notifications. It show new notifications but on clicking just locks up and I eventually get a gateway timeout.
                              Tried rebuilding with make clean but nothing. Also noticed it is spawning multiple snac processes for some reason that arfe at 405% cpu useage.
                              Something must have changed in the code recently?
                              I've made a issue on their codeberg as I cannot read replies.

                                AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺 boosted

                                p »
                                @p@hj.9fs.net

                                The official achivements list (so far).

                                https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                get snacpilled achievement

                                Alt...get snacpilled achievement

                                  The Real Grunfink »
                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                  Well, you're right, but also includes a web UI that allows full interaction with all its features, and that is what works in any browser, even text ones.

                                  CC: @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                    The Real Grunfink boosted

                                    Stefano Marinelli »
                                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    @grunfink @nina_kali_nina FediMeteo does, thanks to !

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                                      The Real Grunfink »
                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                      Does your home page work in Dillo, Links, Netsurf?
                                      Even more: , an ActivityPub server I develop, works totally well with these browsers.

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

                                        Justine Smithies »
                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                        Tempted to have a play with @stefano@bsd.cafe and see how it compares to . Obviously this is only for research as it couldn't possibly be fomo. 😂
                                        Anybody compared the two? If so what's your verdict?

                                        https://littlefedi.org/index.html

                                          lori boosted

                                          AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺 »
                                          @andi@snac.sonnenmulde.at

                                          Self hosting is the way to prevent future problems like this. Just don't choose Mastodon because it is rather heavy on resources.

                                          Have a look at , or or even - all perfectly hostable even from Raspberry Pis. And if you are only interested in hosting one to a handful accounts you won't miss anything from Mastodon. Although GotoSocial can also hosts 1000s of users (the other two mentioned, less so)

                                            lori boosted

                                            Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️ »
                                            @chris@fedi.freebooters.uk

                                            Okay, so is kinda amazing. It does everything I want and more, AND, is super minimal and bullshit free. This is the FOSS stuff I live for.

                                              user21t »
                                              @user21t@snac.bsd.cafe

                                              Hello. Since you mentioned Faircamp, I want to share an idea. How about replacing Rust in the source code with either of these languages: ANSI C, Common Lisp, Scheme or Zig? I would like to see Faircamp as a lightweight alternative to Bandcamp in the same way Snac is a lightweight alternative to Mastodon.

                                              Anyway, there are some issues with AI development in Rust:
                                              https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#programming-languages


                                                pat »
                                                @pat@patpatpat.xyz

                                                Love

                                                I kept fat-thumbing when trying to open content warning'd/hidden posts on me phone...but I realised I can just edit the style.css to add a bigger margin. I should probably check out some of the proper stylesheets people have made (but there is something very rad about the default theme)

                                                  lori boosted

                                                  Stefano Marinelli »
                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one and one .

                                                  Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

                                                  This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

                                                  Thanks, @grunfink !

                                                    Simon »
                                                    @exiguus@0xe10.de

                                                    It's also possible to add your or to the IndieWeb Ring.
                                                    Auth can be done for example with rel="me" github (if it is "available").
                                                    In you might add [←](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/previous)An [IndieWeb Webring](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws) 🕸💍[→](https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/next) to your User Settings...Bio

                                                      Simon »
                                                      @exiguus@0xe10.de

                                                      My goal this week is to play with Message Formatting and Accepted HTML.

                                                      And as far as I can tell, the following HTML tags are accepted in snac messages:

                                                      • <a>
                                                      • <p>
                                                      • <br>
                                                      • <blockquote>
                                                      • <ul>
                                                      • <ol>
                                                      • <li>
                                                      • <cite>
                                                      • <small>
                                                      • <h2>
                                                      • <h3>
                                                      • <span>
                                                      • <i>
                                                      • <b>
                                                      • <u>
                                                      • <s>
                                                      • <pre>
                                                      • <code>
                                                      • <em>
                                                      • <strong>
                                                      • <hr>
                                                      • <img>
                                                      • <del>
                                                      And it looks like that the elements do not accept attributes (e.g. for <a> like title but they do accept href).

                                                      Actually, I added this post like:

                                                      My goal this week is to play with  [Message Formatting](https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html) and [Accepted HTML](https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html).
                                                      And as far as I can tell, the following HTML tags are accepted in snac messages:
                                                      - <code>&lt;a&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;p&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;ol&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;li&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;cite&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;small&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;h2&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;h3&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;span&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;i&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;b&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;u&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;s&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;code&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;em&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;hr&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;img&gt;</code>
                                                      - <code>&lt;del&gt;</code>

                                                      Btw, nice Theme 👍 I like that you can visually follow the reply.

                                                        lori boosted

                                                        Simon »
                                                        @exiguus@0xe10.de

                                                        is doing well today:
                                                        1190668445d9   snac           0.00%     2.559MiB / 64MiB    4.00%     75.5kB / 926kB    1.22MB / 373kB    6
                                                        7ca4518a00b0   searxng        0.07%     134.5MiB / 512MiB   26.27%    344MB / 277MB     1.77GB / 1.48GB   19
                                                        e84c6039e233   slopscore      0.01%     23.44MiB / 64MiB    36.63%    24.6MB / 3.22MB   203MB / 38.4MB    422
                                                        a2d7f76f5542   acme.sh        0.18%     7.637MiB / 32MiB    23.86%    0B / 0B           291MB / 174MB     12
                                                        9205d9d3a6f2   beszel-agent   0.02%     9.711MiB / 32MiB    30.35%    0B / 0B           95.7MB / 2.36MB   8
                                                        e99b7a7d6b93   redis          0.50%     2.441MiB / 64MiB    3.81%     195kB / 128kB     31.5MB / 3.3MB    5
                                                        9ce903f4ca01   echoip         0.00%     7.777MiB / 32MiB    24.30%    1.52MB / 30.8MB   38.1MB / 385kB    4

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                                                          lori »
                                                          @lori@cambrian.social

                                                          I am now a user fwiw

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