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133 lines
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Groff
.Dd $Mdocdate$
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.Dt SNAC 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm snac
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.Nd message formatting and file format documentation
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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daemon processes messages from other servers in the Fediverse
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using the ActivityPub protocol.
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.Pp
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This manual describes the allowed formatting of note messages
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and the disk storage layout of
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.Nm
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server and user data. For the operation manual, see
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.Xr snac 1 .
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For the administration manual, see
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.Xr snac 8 .
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.Ss Message Formatting
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Message notes respect the entered new line breaks rigurously.
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A special subset of Markdown is allowed, including:
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.Bl -tag -width tenletters
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.It bold
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**text between two pairs of asterisks**
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.It italic
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*text between a pair of asterisks*
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.It code
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Text `between backticks` is formatted as code.
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.Bd -literal
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```
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/* text between lines with only three backticks is preformatted */
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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{
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return 0;
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}
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```
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.Ed
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.It links
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Standalone URLs.
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.It quoted text
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Lines starting with >.
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.It User Mentions
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Strings in the format @user@host are requested using the Webfinger
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protocol and converted to links and mentions if something reasonable
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is found.
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.El
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.Pp
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HTML tags are left untouched. This is probably a bad idea that may
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change in future versions.
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.Pp
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.Ss Disk Layout
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This section documents version 1 of the disk storage layout. It's still
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subject to change.
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.Pp
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The base directory contains the following files and folders:
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.Bl -tag -width tenletters
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.It Pa server.json
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Server configuration.
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.It Pa user/
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Directory holding user subdirectories.
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.It Pa archive/
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If this directory exists, all input and output messages are logged inside it,
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including HTTP headers. Only useful for debugging. May grow to enormous sizes.
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.El
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.Pp
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Each user directory is a subdirectory of
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.Pa BASEDIR/user/ ,
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has the user id as name and contains the following subdirectories and files:
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.Bl -tag -width tenletters
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.It Pa user.json
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User configuration file.
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.It Pa key.json
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SHA-1 secret/public key PEM data.
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.It Pa actors/
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This subdirectory stores cached 'Person' ActivityPub messages as JSON files. Each
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file name is an MD5 hash of the actor URL.
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.It Pa timeline/
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This subdirectory stores the user's timeline. Everytime a valid message arrives,
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it's stored in this directory as a JSON object. The file name spec is: a Unix
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timestamp followed by a hyphen followed by an MD5 of the message Id. Additionally,
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metadata for each message parent and children is stored under the '_snac' field;
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parent messages with new children are renamed with an updated timestamp so that
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the more recently updated thread is shown at the top. This directory is presented
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in the web interface in reverse file name order up to a maximum, hardcoded limit.
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These files are purged when they are considered old (this time can be changed by
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tweaking the server configuration).
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.It Pa local/
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This subdirectory stores all activities generated by this user as hardlinks to
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their analogue entries in the
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.Pa timeline/
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subdirectory. These files are never deleted.
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.It Pa followers/
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This subdirectory stores the 'Follow' ActivityPub message from each
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Fediverse user that is following this user as a JSON file. Each file name is
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an MD5 hash of the actor that is a follower of this user.
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.It Pa following/
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This subdirectory stores the 'Follow' (not yet confirmed) or the 'Accept'
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(confirmed) ActivityPub message for each actor that is being followed. Each file
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name is an MD5 hash of the actor.
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.It Pa muted/
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This directory contains files which names are MD5 hashes of muted actors. The
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content is a line containing the actor URL.
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Messages from these actors will be ignored on input and not shown in any timeline.
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.It Pa queue/
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This directory contains the output queue of messages generated by the user as
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JSON files. File names contain timestamps that indicate when the message will
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be sent. Messages not accepted by their respective servers will be re-enqueued
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for later retransmission until a maximum number of retries is reached,
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then discarded.
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.It Pa static/
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Files in this directory are served as-is when requested from the
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.Pa https://HOST/s/...
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URL path. A special file named
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.Pa style.css
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can contain user-specific CSS code to be inserted into the HTML of the
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web interface.
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.It Pa history/
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This directory contains generated HTML files. They may be snapshots of the
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local timeline in previous months or other cached data.
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.It Pa archive/
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This directory is no longer used in version 2.x and later. It can be deleted.
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.Nm
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is run with a debug level >= 1.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr snac 1 ,
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.Xr snac 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An grunfink
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.Sh LICENSE
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See the LICENSE file for details.
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