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

Search results for tag #snac

SnackR »
@snackr@nano.uninformation.org

One thing that I really don’t like in : If you subscribe to a fedi.buzz-Relay, everything that this relay brings into your snacky is "boosted" from the relay and not an original fediverse post.

This isn't too annoying in the web interface (because you can minimize the "lalala boosted" header with CSS), but in clients (like or ) it doesn't look too good. It’s a cluttered timeline full of boosts.

snac is the only server I tested that treats posts reaching the instance via relays as boost, which IMHO isn’t the right way to treat them.

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    HiMY SYeD - littleFedi »
    @himysyed@littleone.littlefedi.social

    littlefedi, snac, openbook, are innovating.

    All three address different points that Dave Winer is identifying, and all three 'are' the little guys.

    | #littlefedi #snac #openbook

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      SnackR »
      @snackr@nano.uninformation.org

      Update all yer toys!

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        FediMeteo »
        @admin@fedimeteo.com

        Update: all the instances have been updated to 2.96


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          Stefano Marinelli »
          @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

          The instance has been updated to 2.96

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

            The instance has been updated to 2.96

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

              Seriously contemplating migrating to just because I am starting to out grow in terms of size(followers/following). Don't get me wrong Snac is absolutely FANTASTIC and I'd 100% recommend it to anyone starting out their own fedi instance but Littlefedi is a lot snappier for me in terms of account size and it doesn't use near as much disk access as Snac. I haven't 100% made up my mind yet and something or someone may change it but the Littlefedi option is really looking promising.

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                Oliver ⚡ »
                @oliver@microhive.me

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                Oliver ⚡ »
                @oliver@microhive.me

                I've just updated my instance to stable version 2.96 👍 🎉
                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.
                Lots of bug fixes and quite a few things I don’t fully understand, but which are certainly important and useful.
                "Accounts can be marked as cool" ... ah come on, Snac user are cool people anyway 😉
                Huge thanks to @grunfink@comam.es and all contributers!! 🎉


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                  The Real Grunfink »
                  @grunfink@comam.es

                  I've just published version 2.96 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                  Accounts can be marked as cool; anytime a cool account posts something, a notification will be sent.

                  Fixed an issue in Direct Messages sent from the people page; these posts didn't explicitly mention the recipient, and that confused some implementations.

                  Fixed crash when sending an empty EmojiReact.

                  HTTP requests can now be forced to use IPv6 by setting the force_ipv6_requests configuration directive to true in server.json.

                  Fixed a socket buffering issue under OpenIndiana (contributed by aleteoryx).

                  Mastodon API: Added missing requested_by field in the relationships entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), implemented the followers entrypoint (contributed by Uilebheist), use Mastodon's RFC3339 format for markers (contributed by nowster), fixed posts with muted words not being filtered out, fixed editing of media alt texts.

                  Tweaked HTML to avoid elinks complaining about a missing '' fragment.

                  Fixed a bug that made deleting the notification email address impossible.

                  RSS timelines are now cached because fuckers hammer for them continuously (probably AI crap bots).

                  Added information to README.md on how to build and install on Illumos / OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 (contributed by aleteoryx).

                  Updated Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech translations (contributed by koru, daltux, pmjv).

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

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


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

                    So I'm testing and it does seem really good but this one thing keeps praying on my mind. Why would the group of people that make it want to remain anonymous? Is it because if folk found out and linked them to something that happened in the past which they'd rather avoid? Or am I just over thinking this maybe? I do like it but I love too and it is my first love. What's everyone else's thoughts on the secrecy behind LittleFedi and it's overall usability over other software out there like Snac, GTS and Mastodon ?

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                      andyc »
                      @andyc@yakshaving.social

                      @paul@paulwilde.uk Many thanks. That wasn't immediately obviously when you're as lazy and impetuous as myself ! is yet another lovely open source software package for ActivityPub.

                        Daltux »
                        @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                        está funcionando bem com . Comparado com Fedilab, porém, um requisito funcional de que sinto falta é , algo suportado há tempos por alguns sistemas do Fediverso mas que quem só usa Mastodon, infelizmente, nem deve ficar sabendo... :mastoError:

                          Daltux »
                          @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                          @pachli@mastodon.social Thanks for the reply!

                          Yes, it is enabled. I wonder if it is something related to , even though it does not make much sense as the images open fine when tapping their alt (or lack of) text. :blobThinking:

                            thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him] »
                            @thedaemon@snac.9front.club

                            Anyone know how to unpin a post on snac? I can't figure it out.

                              :foundation: Ethan Black :starting_dvd: »
                              @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                              Uh?

                              @grunfink@comam.es what does it mean when mentions don't turn into links? (Maybe tags still work... )

                                acct-user/initra-mf[-sleep] 🔜 40C3 »
                                @me@doasu.dev

                                ffuentes »
                                @soy@ffuent.es

                                està interesante leyendo un poco más. Estoy contento con pero tiene otras caracteristicas que no tengo aquí (armar blogs, federar sin dominio) y es fácil de instalar, no debiese ser muy pesado tampoco de hacer andar

                                  Paul SomeoneElse »
                                  @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                                  is a GREAT example of how something can be degrowthed
                                  for good.

                                  At first after using snac (coming from mastodon for example),
                                  you feel like the UI is too minimal. Then you realize it's not
                                  minimal at all, it's just getting out of your way.

                                  You focus on the messages and not on the interface.

                                    marina »
                                    @marina@azulmarina.xyz

                                    excuse me @grunfink@comam.es, could I get some clarification?

                                    snac(8) states that

                                    Emoji values can also be URLs to image files; in this case, they will not be substituted in the post content, but added to the 'tag' array as an ActivityPub standard 'Emoji' object (it's recommendable that the Emoji key be enclosed in colons for maximum compatibility with other ActivityPub implementations, like e.g. :happydoggo:). These images can be served from an external source or from the static directory of the instance admin.
                                    I'm just wondering how to achieve this. At first I tried the following, thinking the search path would default to the static directory:
                                    {
                                    ...
                                    "nixos": "nixos-logo.png",
                                    }
                                    however, it did not work; is the right way to go about this using a file:// URL schema?


                                      Paul SomeoneElse »
                                      @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                                      In snac ...

                                      If someone I follow "likes" content, is that enough to
                                      bring it into my timeline?

                                      (content that seemingly should not show up on my
                                      page.)

                                        :foundation: Ethan Black :starting_dvd: »
                                        @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                                        I love how on I can like a post from someone I have muted/blocked. There's an Operations menu where you can paste in a post link and do an operation on it.


                                        Operations menu showing controls for manually following, boosting, liking and emojireacting (disabled on my server but still an option here!).

                                        Alt...Operations menu showing controls for manually following, boosting, liking and emojireacting (disabled on my server but still an option here!).

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                                          lori »
                                          @lori@cambrian.social

                                          If ur reading this post on a non- (mastodon etc.) instance pls interact with it in zero or more ways thx.

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                                            lori »
                                            @lori@cambrian.social

                                            My poor instance still isn't fetchable from the larger Fediverse. I am stumped.

                                              ploum »
                                              @ploum@mamot.fr

                                              @stefano : is really fascinating.

                                              I wonder if minimalist people could use it to completely replace their Mastodon use, in the long term too (maintainance, keeping up with changes in API, etc)

                                                Stefano Marinelli »
                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

                                                Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

                                                That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

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                                                  Victor Moral ⁂ »
                                                  @victor@taquiones.net

                                                  La CAM tiene casi cinco mil inmuebles en Madrid. Cinco. Mil. De los cuales 107 están disponibles. Ciento. Siete. Disponibles. Y nos hemos gastado más de 1000 millones de pesetas en algo que ocupa 400m2. Lo de que esté frente a la casa de su mami puede ser casualidad.

                                                  Y si iba a ser residencia de antiguos presidentes de la CAM, ¿dónde meteríamos al o a los siguientes? ¿Más millones de euros en áticos chulos y céntricos?

                                                  (Supongo que os habréis dado cuenta de lo bien que funciona , el más mejor servidor del mundo, y del que estreno nueva versión).

                                                    e »
                                                    @e@snac.eshep.net:8443

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                                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                    Well, I started developing in the Summer of 2022 (with previous experience) and I still find ActivityPub somewhat confusing 😉

                                                      The Real Grunfink »
                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                      Anyone can post anything to a person's inbox. However, does a lot of checks to see if this post deserves to be here, e.g., if you are explicitly mentioned, if it's from someone you follow, if it's a reply to a conversation between people you follow, if it contains a hashtag you follow, etc. There are many more conditions. If none matches, the message is dropped with a log message similar to "post xxxx not for us".

                                                      On the other, whenever a post from someone you follow gets in, snac tries to retrieve (following the inReplyTo fields chain) all the conversation up to the beginning to give you some context in the conversation. It may happen that, if that account you follow deletes their post, the replied post is left in your timeline, for no apparent reason.

                                                        Paul SomeoneElse »
                                                        @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                                                        Can people "post" stuff to a person's INBOX if
                                                        they don't have any relationship? (in ActivityPub)

                                                        That might explain why I have a single instance snac
                                                        server, and still get basically spam posts.

                                                        I know I get something similar to that when there is
                                                        like a secondary relationship thru someone i am following.
                                                        But these things I see seemingly have no connecting relationships.



                                                          Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 »
                                                          @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au

                                                          @decryption @andyb You'd be look at #snac to do that. Check out @stefano snac category on his blog: https://it-notes.dragas.net/categories/snac/

                                                            Andrew :neocat_blep: »
                                                            @piepants@snac.acook.jp

                                                            Good to see the Pi Zero still happily chugging along with . I should post here more often. :neocat_cool:

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                                                              ManMachine »
                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                              4lyfe

                                                                Paul SomeoneElse »
                                                                @pkw@snac.d34d.net

                                                                Do any users find that they will enter text into the new post
                                                                box thinking they are performing a web search ?

                                                                  Paul Martin »
                                                                  @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

                                                                  uoou »
                                                                  @uoou@fedi.friendo.monster

                                                                  Just if anyone's curious, after running for over a month now, it's:

                                                                  • Created about 71000 files
                                                                  • Which take up about 76MB of storage space
                                                                  • And it's using 37MB of RAM

                                                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                    Hi, teajaygrey!

                                                                    The best way to include links with unusual characters in is to use the Markdown syntax for links, like in East of Eden.

                                                                    That is, an open square bracket, then the alt text, then the open bracket, then the url, then the close bracket (see snac(5) for more info).

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                                                                      Paul Martin »
                                                                      @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

                                                                      Problems with @pachli@mastodon.social and . Images don't always get fetched in the timeline, and Pachli assumes the format of timeline markers and throws an exception.

                                                                      Pachli debug log, showing it's trying to parse a timeline marker as a date.

                                                                      Alt...Pachli debug log, showing it's trying to parse a timeline marker as a date.

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                                                                        Amity (temping in the Narakas) »
                                                                        @aleteoryx@s2.aleteoryx.me

                                                                        hello from on !

                                                                          The Real Grunfink »
                                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                          You're welcome! Enjoy your

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

                                                                            That is just what I thought about an hour ago when I logged into my test account.

                                                                            I do host my own single user server and want to keep it that way. I do have more than one account, but since I am by myself - my local timeline is useless. If I only could have geographically close messages in there!

                                                                            This feature belongs into and not in one implementation of it!

                                                                            Also pinging @grunfink@comam.es - maybe you're insterested

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                                                                              rubén »
                                                                              @ruben@friendship.quest

                                                                              it's done! My pixelfed account is no more, now all my pictures are where they belong, having a snac

                                                                              https://friendship.quest/minoltacos

                                                                              it's still older content as I just finished reposting my pixelfed posts, but I have a big backlog of negatives to scan and upload!


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                                                                                Onno Bos »
                                                                                @admin@snac.adtension.com

                                                                                :foundation: Ethan Black :starting_dvd: »
                                                                                @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                                                                                I got some custom emoji set up on my tasty :sheik_dab:

                                                                                I now also have a favicon :thonk: (goodbye Susie :cap_salute:) and I overhauled my config :nervous_sweat: Fun!

                                                                                  gmc »
                                                                                  @gmc@snac.chasmcity.net

                                                                                  The update of the port of to 2.95 has been merged! And it's even been merged into the current quarterly branch. I guess that's because of the patched DOS vulnerability.

                                                                                  Screenshot of the snac entry on the FreeBSD website, showing it is at verson 2.95.

                                                                                  Alt...Screenshot of the snac entry on the FreeBSD website, showing it is at verson 2.95.

                                                                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                    This thing is a bit or a mess

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                                                                                      p »
                                                                                      @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                                                      Sometimes people like to say that the 'likes' in the FEDIVERSE don't mean anything. Maybe to some.

                                                                                      If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

                                                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                                      mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                                                                                      Alt...mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

                                                                                        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

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