Found 21 new servers and 20 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

23,063 servers checked. 13,906,727 Total Users with 1,606,421 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

a2c.misskey.casa a #misskey server from Private
toot.radwärts.de a #mastodon server from Germany
91hl.tv a #misskey server from Private
onlypaws.social a #pixelfed server from Germany
masto.deluma.biz a #mastodon server from United States
fedi.bobadin.icu a #gotosocial server from Germany
evrial.com a #mastodon server from Private
akkoma.kawaiizenbo.me a #akkoma server from United States
libremercs.dev a #mastodon server from Sweden
goto.dalliance.social a #gotosocial server from Finland
menzocollabs.tv a #peertube server from United States
fedi.eviscerating.day a #mastodon server from United States
7cat.cc a #sharkey server from Private
mastodon.vex.blue a #mastodon server from France
lifeiswoohoo.com a #snac server from Private
social.geekgo.tech a #gotosocial server from Private
nexart.social a #mastodon server from United States
social.chaos.fyi a #gotosocial server from Germany
social.maka.nagoya a #misskey server from Private
sloan.host a #mastodon server from Portugal
m.nekohub.uk a #misskey server from Private

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Found 26 new servers and 14 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

23,071 servers checked. 13,883,863 Total Users with 1,607,721 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

sd-69.com a #misskey server from Private
catshit.blips2.club a #peertube server from Private
2t.hleb.dev a #mastodon server from France
sabatino.social a #mastodon server from Germany
pixel.tiggi.es a #pixelfed server from United States
linuxtube.space a #peertube server from Russia
beneluxtwinks.date a #gotosocial server from Finland
sakurabyte.onthewifi.com a #gotosocial server from United States
masto.empresasenegocios.com.br a #mastodon server from Brazil
crashthearcade.social a #mastodon server from Portugal
social.moderateexcess.com a #mastodon server from Private
social.breisgaucave.de a #mastodon server from Germany
hubzilla.nixadmin.es a #hubzilla server from United Kingdom
experiment.sayori.dev a #eyeofgod server from Private
artin.social a #mastodon server from Portugal
mastodon.co.il a #mastodon server from Ukraine
gore.pet a #mastodon server from Canada
ruang.info a #mastodon server from Private
pixel.maik.social a #pixelfed server from Switzerland
snac.clovius.club a #snac server from Sweden
gotosocial.elsultan.casa a #gotosocial server from Private
hyperspace.mywire.org a #mastodon server from Finland
ms-key.mfyo.jp a #misskey server from Private
godzillaenergy.moe a #mastodon server from Portugal
autumnsky.jp a #akkoma server from Japan
ski.see2et.dev a #misskey server from Private

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Found 20 new servers and 30 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

23,782 servers checked. 13,887,775 Total Users with 1,663,283 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

gyatt.monster a #misskey server from United States
shrmp.constellatory.net a #iceshrimp server from United States
fedpic.com a #pixelfed server from Germany
akko.constellatory.net a #akkoma server from United States
mst.nekonohige.jp a #mastodon server from Japan
misskeymint.net a #misskey server from Private
social.running.cafe a #mastodon server from United Kingdom
gummybrain.com a #mastodon server from Portugal
x.compi.lol a #mastodon server from Germany
ofurodon.com a #mastodon server from Private
dersonic.de a #mastodon server from Portugal
social.flylumo.co.uk a #mastodon server from France
wacan.org a #firefish server from Germany
social.ohaa.xyz a #gotosocial server from Austria
friendskey.pirated.zip a #misskey server from Private
jrollans.com a #snac server from United States
innerpeace.social a #sharkey server from United States
ukuru.net a #pleroma server from Private
friendhole.social a #mastodon server from Portugal
social.xyntion.consulting a #mastodon server from Germany

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Found 19 new servers and 19 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

23,853 servers checked. 13,882,640 Total Users with 1,674,170 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

sumisky.xyz a #misskey server from Private
chaotic.fun a #mastodon server from Private
snowpiercer.co.uk a #gotosocial server from Germany
mirror-02.vidbin.org a #peertube server from United States
u-stella.net a #misskey server from Japan
mi-balloon.okin-jp.net a #misskey server from Private
mitra.0ut0f.space a #mitra server from The Netherlands
mobilizon.ouvre-boites.coop a #mobilizon server from Germany
outskirts.town a #iceshrimp.net server from United States
mastodon.personalspaceshow.lawyer a #mastodon server from Private
hades.is a #gotosocial server from United States
notes.memorabilium.net a #writefreely server from United States
g33ks.social a #bonfire server from France
mast.delayofgame.com a #mastodon server from United States
spellcaster.social a #mastodon server from Private
tpjapub.us a #snac server from Private
mast.evulid.cc a #mastodon server from Private
mastodon.robomwm.com a #mastodon server from Private
s.1a23.studio a #firefish server from Private

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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.44 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Fixed a nasty bug that caused the in-memory output queue to be corrupted under heavy traffic loads. This is a good reason to upgrade (thanks to Víctor Moral and Stefano Marinelli for helping me in fixing this).

Shared inboxes are now supported. This is not a user visible feature (hopefully, they will not feel any change), but it will significantly improve traffic for snac instances with many users and will open room for new features that are only feasible with these kind of input channels (this is not enabled by default; see snac(8)).

I've refactored all HTML code because it was somewhat of a mess; now it's much more maintainable (at least for me). I think I haven't broken anything.

Fixed crash in a special case of malformed query.

Mastodon API: some tweaks for better integration with more clients, and fixed a crash when processing boosts from kbin.

Fixed crash in the FastCGI code (thanks to Yonle for helping me debug this).

Added apache2 configuration information (contributed by Víctor Moral).

Added FreeBSD and NetBSD setup information and examples (contributed by draga79).

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

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This release has been inspired by the album Until the Horses Come Home by #Undyed.

One year of #snac

If the source code version control history is to be trusted, I started developing snac (a simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C) exactly one year ago (Sept 19th).

It was not my first experience with ActivityPub: I had built a prototype version in Python some months before (hence the "2" in the snac2 repository name), and back in 2019 I made some partial implementation for an unrelated (and now forgotten) blog project, so the protocol was not totally new to me.

These are my thoughts about one year of development.

Why did I start it? Because I read somewhere about the (still baffling to me) humoungous requirements of a basic #Mastodon installation. I read a lot of people affirming that was the bare minimum: "it CAN'T be done with less resources". But I've always seen it as a glorified short message application and challenged myself to write a feature-complete #Fediverse instance with the following goals: keeping it small, simple, easily deployed, and lacking the bloat software tendencies of modern times.

Did it come out as expected? not totally sure, but probably yes. I even implemented more things that I originally planned (I initially said a big NO to myself regarding adding Mastodon API support, but finally did it and it works mostly well). The program is still somewhat small (a stripped binary of less that 300k probably counts). The no-database, no-cookies, no-javascript absolute rules still apply. I'm fine with the (opinionated) web UI that shows conversations as threaded trees instead of the plain, dull stream of posts that Mastodon or Twitter show. It cooperates pretty well with the always growing ecosystem of ActivityPub applications.

Was the time and effort worth it? On this, I'm not sure. I'm old and depressed and unemployed, so developing snac has kept my brain busy and entertained for a little while. But it has been more work that I expected: the ActivityPub specification is a bit diffuse in some areas, so every implementation does some things a bit different and many corner cases had to be implemented; some parts (specifically, the Mastodon API) have been very tedious to implement and test; and also, helping users debugging remote systems is difficult and very stressing for me. Fortunately, some fellow developers have helped me and I'm immensely thankful to them.

Has it been a success? I'm pretty sure about this: no. I thought that the small footprint, the lack of moving parts and the feature set would be attractive to a large base of users, but this has not been the case. Perhaps I've been unable to reach the neccessary potential users for it to reach some critical mass (a failure of the PR department 😆). Perhaps what I consider interesting features (minimalism, footprint, the web UI concept, Mastodon API compatibility, etc.) are not that valuable for most. Perhaps people disregard it just because it's not Mastodon. Perhaps there are errors and crashes that I'm not aware of. Perhaps snac is rubbish and I'm unable to see it. The reality is that snac is a niche and unknown part of the Fediverse ecosystem and there is no sign that the user base will grow from the current small fistful of deployments out there.

What about the future? I'm also not sure. Apart from some pending bugfixes and wishlist items mentioned in the TODO file, I've implemented all the features I initially expected and then many more, so I consider snac a finished program. New bugs will happen, that's for sure. New ActivityPub applications will show out there and, if experience tells me anything, they will all have slightly different protocol interpretations that will need some code tuning on my part. Development will continue; snac is a maintained program. But big changes will probably not happen anymore.

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

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