bench.thebus.top 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
thebus.top's fediverse instance
Admin account
@mascal@bench.thebus.top

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FediMeteo »
@admin@fedimeteo.com

All the instances have been updated to 2.76


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

    lorenzo »
    @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

    In love with


      The Real Grunfink »
      @grunfink@comam.es

      Hi, author here. The xs code is specially crafted to parse the JSON files in use in the ActivityPub protocol, which are a) mostly small, and b) they have very few numbers, so the string to double conversion happens almost never.

      Regarding the enum numbers: they are surely arbitrary, but the rationale there is that they are all ASCII control codes (so: less than 32) that should never happen in a JSON file (and, if they occasionally appear, they are converted to their Unicode representations). The correspondence is:

      XS_TYPE_STRING 0x02 ASCII: STX (start of text)
      XS_TYPE_TRUE 0x06 ASCII: ACK (acknowledge)
      XS_TYPE_FALSE 0x15 ASCII: NAK (negative ack.)
      XS_TYPE_LIST 0x1d ASCII: GS (group separator)
      XS_TYPE_LITEM 0x1f US (unit separator)
      XS_TYPE_DICT 0x1c ASCII: FS (file separator)
      So, yes, they are arbitrary, but make some fucking sense, or at least a little bit.

      CC: @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev

        Oliver⚡ »
        @oliver@microhive.social

        I've just updated my instance to version 2.76 👍 🎉
        You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
        A simple, minimalistic instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.

          Chee Aun 🤔 »
          @cheeaun@mastodon.social

          Hopefully Phanpy works better now for folks on . Took me some time to investigate this issue codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/is , found that `Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link` header is needed for `Link` header to be read by the browser's `fetch`, used by Masto.js to paginate requests 🙇‍♂️

          Related issue: github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issu

          comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/17467

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

            Thank you!

            I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.76 here:

            https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28373

            GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed!

            It's up to someone else with write access to merge it.

            Thanks to you and dandelions and shtrophic (and anyone else I may have missed) for the continued contributions and improvements!

            (these modest diffs were prepared in part while listening to "Garlic Braid" by LMNO & D-STYLES: https://d-styles.bandcamp.com/track/garlic-braid [the 1st single from the upcoming full length album: Three Mimes & an Elephant)



              The Real Grunfink »
              @grunfink@comam.es

              does indeed support access (bearer) tokens:

              https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.1.html#Implementing_post_bots

                Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                @santi@go.lema.org

                Took me a long time to understand why my home IP didn’t update in DNS.

                Turns out I was using my own script ( https://n4no.org/tools ) but that was on my now dead Mastodon instance. 🤦🏻‍♂️

                Also #snac does not support access tokens apparently which makes it much more difficult to just script posts from a remote machine (previously jsut one curl request with vanilla Mastodon). It’s easy to post from the snac server itself as it has commands to post but not via a remote request.

                  The Real Grunfink »
                  @grunfink@comam.es

                  I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.76 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                  Added Webmention support for links (Markdown-style or direct) written in a post.

                  Added new command-line options for list maintenance.

                  Display custom emoji in more places (contributed by dandelions).

                  Mastodon API: fixed infinite scroll in many clients (thanks to cheeaun for giving me the clue), added /api/v1/accounts/.../lists endpoint (contributed by dandelions).

                  Email notifications can now be sent via libcurl SMTP instead of spawning the /usr/sbin/sendmail program. To use this new feature, some additional server configuration is needed, see snac(8) (contributed by shtrophic).

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

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


                    Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                    @santi@go.lema.org

                    I was a bit confused about by @taka_hvc1@social.mikutter.hachune.net because GitHub is all in Japanese and I can’t read it 😔 but it was so easy SO compile and run!

                    So small, so perfect. Plain C.

                    It streams your feed. You press enter once to write post and again to send. See post above.

                    https://github.com/taka-tuos/nanotodon

                    Perfect companion for by @grunfink@comam.es

                    Alt...Terminal builds nanoton in 4 seconds on a pi, then runs it (login was done previously). It streams some posits, I press enter and I post something.

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                      mascal »
                      @mascal@bench.thebus.top

                      Well, my install is now using unix sockets instead of IP ones. Because I use the backports package, I had to do a bit of systemctl edit sorcery, disabling PrivateTmp, which is a bit meh.

                      Don't ask me why I did it, especially that I don't need that much of throughput.

                        sam ✅🇬🇪 »
                        @sam@chven.us

                        just moved my website to another server before I move. I've successfully rsynced my snac directory and reinstalled it on the new server with no apparent breakage.


                          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.


                            computing competence »
                            @cc@feinste-netzwerke.de

                            Es gibt dabei nun auch einen Meilenstein zu verkünden: https://mastodon.online/@feinste_netzwerke ist zu https://feinste-netzwerke.de/cc umgezogen. Nun veröffentlichen wir im unter der schicken Adresse: @cc@feinste-netzwerke.de

                            Und ein großer Applaus @grunfink@comam.es, Schöpfer des hervorragenden -Servers. Bitte , damit diese kleine Instanz an Reichweite gewinnt.

                            CC: @besendorf@chaos.social @oliver@lfnt.site

                              gyptazy »
                              @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                              My relay instance for the evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

                              If you're running / , , or any other software on the protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully also supports relay services soon! Of course is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

                              fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

                              Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

                              Alt...Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

                                The Real Grunfink »
                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                I've just enjoyed this fascinating conversation between @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live and @stefano@bsd.cafe, where the latter explains how he planted the seed of the incredibly friendly, great and extense community that is the BSD Cafe. Open source, owning you own data and the importance of interconnecting people is talked about here. Of course, Stefano also talked about https://fedimeteo.com/, his great project that makes weather information available to the whole Fediverse; this makes me, as the developer of (one of the pieces of software that operates Fedimeteo), also a bit proud of being a part of.

                                As Stefano says, "you can't describe passion", but you can feel it from his words.

                                  r1w1s1 »
                                  @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                  Hi Feedverse!!!

                                  Big thanks to Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe),
                                  our dedicated admin keeping BSD.cafe running smoothly.
                                  Stefano is always such a positive presence, and his work
                                  is the foundation of our feedverse home.

                                  And a huge shoutout to The Real Grunfink (@grunfink@comam.es),
                                  creator of the excellent server.
                                  Snac truly embodies the KISS and minimalist principles – simple,
                                  efficient, and powerful software that makes the Fediverse better.

                                  These two contribute significantly to our online space.
                                  If you value their efforts and the spirit of their work,
                                  consider supporting them financially.
                                  Every bit helps keep these vital parts of the decentralized web thriving.

                                  Thank you, Stefano and Grunfink!


                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                    Hi, main developer here. Follow metrics are disabled by default, but you can enable them from your user settings.

                                    CC: @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                      stu »
                                      @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                                      Good morning 🌞 universe and fediverse.

                                      Hope everyone has a great day today 🙏.

                                        stu »
                                        @lndn@snac.bsd.cafe

                                        Hi @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe 👋

                                        Just curious on how your profile on # is showing following and followers?

                                          Stefano Marinelli »
                                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                          For those who want to watch yesterday's live chat on Fireside Fedi, here’s the link to the full video. We talked about the BSD systems, FediMeteo, snac, the BSD Cafe, the Open Source world, the Fediverse and... spaghetti

                                          video.firesidefedi.live/w/vSo8

                                            The Real Grunfink »
                                            @grunfink@comam.es

                                            For today's , I want to thank @gyptazy@gyptazy.com and his cool project BoxyBSD, for providing me with a small OpenBSD VPS that works like a charm and that is helping me with the development of .

                                              Puffy Fan »
                                              @Puffy4Life@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                              Using app for seems to functional identically to a Mastodon account, has anyone had an issues for tusky with snac?

                                                The Real Grunfink »
                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                Hi, Santiago. I've checked the code and found that there is a glitch in 's Mastodon API, and the "follow requests must be approved" boolean is not returned correctly (as the 'locked' boolean).

                                                I'll fix it, thanks for reporting.

                                                  Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                  @santi@go.lema.org

                                                  @MonaApp@mastodon.social When posting to followers only in Mona I see this warning saying anyone can follow me. This is not the case as I now require approval of followers.

                                                  Is there any specific API endpoint that Mona uses that needs to be implemented for this to go away ? I now use by @grunfink@comam.es as my instance server.

                                                  Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

                                                  Alt...Snac settings for my user shows follow requests must be approved

                                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                    Hi. I don't have access to any Apple phone, so I'm unable to do any test, but I of course would like it to work as better as possible.

                                                    I've heard that an app called Mona works acceptably, but I have no idea. I also heard that an iOs app named tooot works; this one also has an Android version, I did some shallow tests with it and it seems to work.

                                                    Personally, on my mobile phone, I use 's web UI from Android Firefox, and it works perfectly (in fact, for me, if something has an acceptable WWW suport, I install no mobile app, but I'm somewhat of an unfrozen caveman).

                                                      The Real Grunfink »
                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                      Due to decades of experience per programmer, state-of-the-art development processes and a diligent QA department, you can write /etc/hosts (or even /etc/passwd) in a post and let the verb be spread to the world.

                                                      Not so in other platforms:

                                                      https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack

                                                        Santiago Lema :amiga: »
                                                        @santi@go.lema.org

                                                        Otherwise migration was rather straightforward. I followed instructions from the man page

                                                        What was more laborious was importing all the emojis. I had to resort to macros to build the emoji.json and a bunch of curl calls to get every image to destination server into the static folder of the admin user (me).

                                                        Thanks again @grunfink@comam.es for

                                                          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.

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

                                                            My apologies for the delay.

                                                            I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.75 here:

                                                            https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28174

                                                            GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!

                                                            It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

                                                            Thanks to you, shtrophic and everyone else who helped make improvements for this release!



                                                              FediMeteo »
                                                              @admin@fedimeteo.com

                                                              All the instances have been upgraded to 2.75


                                                                Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                The instance has been upgaded to 2.75

                                                                BSDCafeServices

                                                                  The Real Grunfink »
                                                                  @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                  Yes, releases are always clearly tagged. Anyway, I take special care to always have a master that is fully functional (modulo unexpected errors).

                                                                  Have a nice experience!

                                                                    The Real Grunfink »
                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                    I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.75 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                    Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).

                                                                    The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.

                                                                    Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.

                                                                    Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers.

                                                                    Added a new snac-admin helper script (contributed by shtrophic).

                                                                    In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden> tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.

                                                                    Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.

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

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

                                                                    This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by .