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Hi. No, not at this moment. You mean, as a standalone, isolated server, with communication only available between users of the same server, right?
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Yes, that is correct. I suppose 'isolated instance' is the term I am reaching for.
If I configure my web server proxy to block snac2 from sending and receiving connections from other instances would this break snac or cause some kind of dump or race condition? I suppose I could just try it and see.
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@octade I give it a low chance of working, but it's simple enough to be worth trying to block the domain name *
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I looked into having a non federating mastodon instance a long time ago. It was a doable from the settings, but things could have changed. Might have been on Glitchsoc fork. If I find it again, I'll let you know.Side note: Hubzilla has a plugin that creates a stand alone server.
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Actually that would enable #snac usage in a specific educational use case: schools.
I think kids and teens might be able to learn how to use social-networks in a defederated #fediverse instance, being able to do their typical errors in a protected environment.
However I know no school so brave to experiment on this, because of all kind of issues they might have to face, from sexting to bulling.
Yet, I think that it might help kids grow more aware of the risks and implication (and maybe even more #privacy aware).
On the technical side: you could have a defederated Snac if you make it available over a VPN or local network only. Also, I suppose that messing crypto keys would isolate the instance's inbox. All hacks, though.
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OCTADEreplied to Happy Jack Smooches last edited by [email protected]
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It is a convenient way to have a local portal that runs like a social media platform.
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OCTADEreplied to Big Diggity last edited by [email protected]@[email protected]
I recall that friendica has the option disable_federation in the config settings.
I realized that with snac, I can run a script daemon:
1. Use inotifywatch to check incoming objects;
2. Dump the new object JSON to detect requests from foreign domains;
3. run the 'snack block' command on the found domain;
4. Delete the incoming object;
5. Sanitize any generated notifications.
This should all happen so quickly that local users should never notice it.
So any attempt to communicate in either direction can be automatically detected on first blush, then the remote domain blocked.
It's a hack, but it should work.
Another question: what about a wildcard character in the 'snac block' command?
I'm not going to try it on this public instance because I'm afraid of some kind of expansion wrecking things. Does anyone know if that would do anything weird?
I think there may be some XMPP front ends that do what I'm thinking here. I'll need to check that out too.
I don't want a forum. I want it to 'feel' like a social media interface and work with the available activitypub (or maybe XMPP) clients.
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Just like shell ... worth a try.
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