I agree absolutely. I've always been adamant on this: I consider the comparison of followers a source of misery and sadness, like some kind of toxic popularity contest. This feature was added to commercial social media software as a way of getting users engaged forever so that they never leave and keep creating free content for them.

But, I see great people using #snac and asking for this, and who am I to be that stubborn.

It will always be disabled by default, though.

You're welcome!

Thanks to you, Stefano!

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.39 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added support for Follow confirmation messages that only return the follow request id (this fixes following Guppe channels).

Fixed some Gotosocial ActivityPub compatibility (details: support fields like tag and attachment being single objects instead of arrays).

Fixed ActivityPub outbox (it listed 'Note' objects instead of 'Create' activities).

Show the 'audience' field (channel URL) if a post has one (like pages from lemmy channels and other forums).

Some web UI tweaks: the new post field is hidden by default (wasting less screen space), added a 'back to top' link at the bottom of the page and other minor tuning to the HTML and default CSS (contributed by yonle).

Fixed RSS (contributed by yonle).

Fixed interactive text processes (like instance or user creating) by calling fflush() after printing text prompts (it was broken on systems that use musl like Alpine Linux).

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

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Hi. #snac intentionally returns just a small subset of posts in the outbox (the newer ones). So you're right, the number is not accurate at all.