triptico.com 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
Ángel Ortega in the fediverse, running snac
Admin email
angel@triptico.com
Admin account
@angel@triptico.com

Search results for tag #snac

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

Hi. Thanks!

I had no idea that has stopped working with Lemmy and NodeBB groups. I'll take a look at it.

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

    [ RESOLVED ]

    The issue below was caused because this idiot aka me forgot to rebuild snac under FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE so the compatibility package is not required.

    WOW ! The only jail I had a problem with was my jail. It refused to run up quoting this error ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypto.so.30" not found, required by "snac"
    I found a fix which is you have to install compat14x-amd compatibility files so stuff that relies on older libs can still run.

      [?]FediMeteo » 🌐
      @admin@fedimeteo.com

      Update: all the FediMeteo instances have been upgraded to snac 2.85


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

        Right I have back online after a major outage when I upgraded from 14.3 to 15.0 . The issue was caused by a massive twat ! Yeah moi. All I got was snac starting and constant 100% disk reading from it causing snac to not run correctly. Why well I built snac from git but on FreeBSD 14.3. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise I needed to rebuild under FreeBSD 15.0.
        Oh well lesson learned which I'm sure I'll forget. 🙄

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

          Right I only have one more bastille jail to upgrade out of eight and that's this one my instance so it will be down for a minute or two. See you on the other side. ;)

            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
            @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

            [?]Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account) » 🌐
            @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

            Hello! I love and I use it wherever I can, even in projects like . For the BSD Cafe, I'm happy with the snac instance, and it's been online for a long time, but today I would still install Mastodon as the primary instance, and I'll explain why: moderation and user management.

            Moderation, on snac, is necessarily less comprehensive than on Mastodon, and consequently, it becomes much more difficult to handle issues with it. Reports as understood on Mastodon do not exist, and as a result, the outcome might be detrimental even to other instances.

            That being said, if you have a community with a small number of users (although the number of users is relatively important, given that the largest FediMeteo instance has over 1200 cities/users) but, especially, if they are trusted, you can go with snac. If you need a more complete solution, perhaps it may not be the best solution (yet). I tried Friendica and I like it, but not enough to have a clear opinion on how it performs with larger communities.

            Mastodon, once you understand how it works, is not complicated to maintain, but, like all stacks, it needs to be fully understood to avoid problems (e.g., cleanup, etc.).

              [?]HïMY SYeD🟩:mstdn: » 🌐
              @HiMYSYeD@mstdn.ca

              @stesnac Hello from Canada,

              I am grateful for all the work you put into your BSD cafe community.

              As an outside observer,

              your example and public decisions have answered much of my fediverse questions, except this one :

              Were you to start your BSD Cafe community today, and decided to choose only one fediverse program to run,

              Do you think SNAC would be enough to satisfy your community members, instead of using Mastodon ?

              That's my question.

              Here's some extra context :

              I don't want to run Mastodon as it seems the technical aspects are beyond my abilities.

              I have learning-curve fatigue the more I looked into setting up and then maintaining Mastodon.

              I'm still considering Friendica, simply because I can turn RSS feeds into fediverse usernames, which appear in the Local Friendica timeline.

              Take away my RSS requirement,

              Then SNAC seems like it's enough.

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                [?]BSD Cafe Announcements » 🌐
                @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                @smallcircles @nathan @davidrevoy @dansup @index @Affekt @ploum

                I think it makes sense for Pixelfed to only display images, but I do think it should be a (per-account-followed) setting and also mentioned in the onboarding that the user is only getting photo posts, rather than the entire "picture" of the fediverse, if you'll forgive the awkward diction/pun.

                As someone who uses #Pixelfed, #Mastodon, #GoToSocial, and #snac, I appreciate the slightly different takes on the fediverse that these different applications provide.

                  [?]Oliver ⚡ » 🌐
                  @oliver@microhive.me

                  I've just updated my instance, to version 2.85 👍 🎉
                  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.
                  Do you see this post? It comes from a Snac server.
                  The Fediverse is larger than you assume 😉


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

                    I've just published version 2.85 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                    Quoted posts are now shown.

                    Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

                    Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

                    Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

                    Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

                    Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

                    Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

                    Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

                    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

                      Also how would Snac perform in a vmm virtual machine using only 1 CPU compared to being in a multi core CPU jail on FreeBSD ??
                      I have less followers than you, but I run this instance (and two more) in a VPS with only 1 CPU.

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

                        Question for folk that use in their home labs or rather several. ;)

                        I've got this idea to spin up OpenBSD on an i5-10505 based PC with 32Gb ram and I want to run the following services which are currently hosted on my FreeBSD server here using Bastille jails for each service.

                        I have a reverse proxy, nginx for web, git and cgit in another, Syncthing, Radicale. So 5 jails in total. The questions I have are would you try run all of those on base OpenBSD or use vmm for each like I do with bastille ?
                        Also how would perform in a vmm virtual machine using only 1 CPU compared to being in a multi core CPU jail on FreeBSD ??

                        The FreeBSD server has a i7-4790 (8) @ 3.60 GHz with 16Gb ram
                        The OpenBSD machine has a i5-10505 (6) @ 3.2 - 4.6 GHz with 32Gb ram.

                        Don't ask me why I'm considering this please.

                          [?]ffuentes » 🌐
                          @soy@ffuent.es

                          Yo uso , es bastante fácil y consume poco o nada

                            [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                            @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                            @passthejoe

                            There's always #GoToSocial and #snac ;)

                              [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: » 🌐
                              @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                              @passthejoe

                              Another super minimalistic one to check out if #snac doesn't work out for you is the wonderfully-named #honk ;)

                              It's from the (in)famous #OpenBSD dev, #tedu. ;)

                                [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                @prahou@merveilles.town

                                @grunfink

                                SINCE YOU LEFT ME

I'VE BEEN 
SNACPILLED

comam.es/what-is-snac

                                Alt...SINCE YOU LEFT ME I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

                                  [?]gyptazy » 🌐
                                  @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

                                  Looks like I finally successfully migrated from back to () on the same domain name without bigger impacts and jumps.


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

                                    My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

                                    The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

                                    Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

                                    So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

                                    I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18

                                    Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

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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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                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                        Hace unos días puse en marcha este bot: @palabra@triptico.com . Saca la palabra del día de la página del Diccionario de la Lengua Española de la R.A.E. y la envía como un post público, una vez al día, por la mañana (zona horaria de España). También se puede acceder mediante RSS.

                                        Con el software de ActivityPub que uso () es muy fácil montar cosas de estas.

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                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                          This is how a Peertube post / video looks like in (the video is currently playing, after clicking on it):

                                          example screenshot of a Peertube post in the snac ActivityPub software

                                          Alt...example screenshot of a Peertube post in the snac ActivityPub software

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

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

                                            Hi. I was feeling apocalyptic the other day and programmed this bot: @eschaton@comam.es

                                            It gives a daily report of those asteroids with a reasonable probability of crashing into Earth, in case you are not already afraid enough of the future. Of course, using , what else.

                                            It takes its data from a very cool NASA site, so (again) in these days of uncertanty, I'm not sure how long will it work.

                                            Everyone, take care, and have a great week.

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                                              [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                              @stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

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

                                              Some technical details for those interested:
                                              The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
                                              As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

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

                                                is the powerful war rig in the army against the axis of biased social networks; is the little buffoon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.


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

                                                  I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.69 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. Again, this version has been possible thanks to the very valuable help from great people. It includes the following changes:

                                                  Added support for subscribing to LitePub (Pleroma-style) Fediverse Relays like e.g. https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to improve federation. See snac(8) (the Administrator Manual) for more information on how to use this feature.

                                                  Added support for following hashtags. This is only useful if your instance is subscribed to relays (see above).

                                                  Added support for a Mastodon-like /authorize_interaction webpoint entry, that allows following, liking and boosting from another account's Mastodon public web interface. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /authorize_interaction to snac (see snac(8)).

                                                  Some fixes to accept Event objects properly (like those coming from implementations like https://gancio.org/ or https://mobilizon.fr).

                                                  Added some caching for local Actor objects.

                                                  Hashtags that are not explicitly linked in a post's content are shown below it.

                                                  Fixed broken NetBSD build (missing dependency in Makefile.NetBSD).

                                                  The user profile can now include longitude and latitude data for your current location.

                                                  Mastodon API: implemented limit= on notification fetches (contributed by nowster), implemented faster min_id handling (contributed by nowster), obey the quiet public visibility set for posts, other timeline improvements (contributed by nowster).

                                                  Reduced RSA key size for new users from 4096 to 2048. This will be friendlier to smaller machines, and everybody else out there is using 2048.

                                                  If the SNAC_BASEDIR environment variable is defined and set to the base directory of your installation, you don't have to include the base directory in the command line.

                                                  Fixed a bug in the generation of the top page (contributed by an-im-dugud).

                                                  Added support for Markdown headers and underlining (contributed by an-im-dugud).

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

                                                  If you find useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

                                                  This release has been inspired by the song Nine Hundred Miles by .

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                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                    Justine, to use it with you must use the Pleroma-style address (https://relay.infosec.exchange/actor)

                                                    CC: @troed@sangberg.se

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                                                      [?]FediMeteo » 🌐
                                                      @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                                      A big, huge thank you to @grunfink@comam.es, the creator of Snac.
                                                      They are modifying the software based on the needs of FediMeteo – something amazing that shows the quality of the person involved.

                                                      https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2


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

                                                        Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

                                                        UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

                                                        UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

                                                        Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

                                                        FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

                                                        You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

                                                        Currently supported countries include:
                                                        Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

                                                        FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

                                                        Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
                                                        fedimeteo.com

                                                        Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

                                                        FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

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                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                          supports full text search (with regexes) on everything that is on your timeline, your posts and other's.

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                                                            [?]Victor Moral ⁂ » 🌐
                                                            @victor@taquiones.net

                                                            Este fin de semana he dado de baja mi cuenta de Twitter. Llevaba con ella desde casi el principio aunque no he llegado a participar activamente; por un lado porque algunas de las cuentas eran tuitstars y no responden ni en broma. Por otro porque a veces no sabía qué decir y las pocas veces en las que sí lo decía el formato era corto para mantener discusiones.

                                                            Más tarde me he dado cuenta de que empleando el correo electrónico las discusiones no tienen sentido y que más allá del duelo al amanecer no merece la pena discutir con gente que se ha construido un personaje público y saca sus garbanzos de ahí. Entre eso y los palmeros, a los que el tuitstar SÍ responde por que necesita tenerles en cuenta, es difícil estar a gusto; de hecho el término "pocosfollower" es el indicativo de una época.

                                                            Pero sí que he pasado mucho tiempo allí obteniendo enlaces y enterándome de polémicas para pasar el rato y olvidar cómo estoy y quién soy así que tampoco es que lo haya dejado hasta el sábado. Una vez que tengo mi servidor en el fediverso (con ) tengo siempre un lugar que considero mío. Por esa parte estoy cubierto.

                                                            Ahora estoy intentando ver qué aparece en BlueSky y de momento están todos con una limpia tremenda de nazis y demás chusma que está funcionando al parecer. También cuentas estupendas que estaban permanentemente candadas en twitter ahora actúan en abierto y son una delicia de seguir. Pero el lugar sigue siendo extraño, como un barrio bajo asedio, y quiero ver dónde terminará cuando los dueños empiecen a monetizar.

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                                                              [?]Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account) » 🌐
                                                              @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                              I've just tried a new theme, Pika, on a test snac instance. And I like it!


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                                                                [?]Justine Smithies » 🌐
                                                                @justine@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                Right so my personal instance seems to be working ok and I have managed to import all of the accounts I follow here on bsd.cafe . I'll still be using this account but will try and see how I get on with snac. You may notice that it always shows that I have no followers and that I'm not following anyone. This is intentional by the author of as they feel numbers should not matter which is quite true. Feel free to follow me over there if you haven't already and hello to any new followers.
                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
                                                                All of this is hosted in my on a server jail running over my home FTTP connection. I'm impressed I've gotten this far. Next I'll be doing some html and css customisation's to theme it a little.

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                                                                  [?]Justine Smithies » 🌐
                                                                  @justine@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                  After getting to try the activity pub server developed by @grunfink on bsd.cafe thanks @stefano , I'm kind of tempted to spin up my own instance. Anyone here other than Stefano that runs their own instance ? Please share you pro's and con's plus any workarounds you have come up with.
                                                                  Also how are you viewing / posting on mobile ? Are you just sticking with web or using the likes of ?

                                                                  codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

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                                                                    [?]Ворон » 🌐
                                                                    @voron@snac.nya.pub

                                                                    Introducing a new style for called "Next". Slightly more compact, light and dark mode, with icons.

                                                                    You can change the colors in the :root block.

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                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

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

                                                                      So it seems that, now that Threads is federating, the most popular person in the fediverse is... Mark Zuckerberg:

                                                                      https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/release_candidate/statuses/112140845317198247

                                                                      I find these "popularity contests" pointless, ridiculous and inherently toxic, and a signature of private social networks where the goal is not to help people communicate between each other.

                                                                      This is the reason why does not propagate how many followers nor likes a person have.

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                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                        AFAIK, @stefano@bsd.cafe runs both and fediverse instances in https://bsd.cafe , but for some reason the snac one is not announced there.

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                                                                          [?]Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account) » 🌐
                                                                          @stesnac@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                                          snac2 has reached version 2.44, which is stable and undoubtedly suitable for more comprehensive use.
                                                                          In the coming days, I'll likely declare this instance as stable and include it in BSD Cafe's services. Plurality and choice are fundamental in a free world.