@creme has built a nice MUC BanBot for XMPP with a lot of neat features to keep the Multi-User-Chat rooms in order. This bot is certainly useful for other XMPP server admins too. So we have more control and generally more safety in the envs.net XMPP chat rooms.

#envs #xmpp #muc #bot #chat Blogpost: https://dan.envs.net/blog/2026/2026-03-05-our-new-xmpp-muc-banbot

## __**Note** from: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:26 CET

I checked and fixed my whole website on the envs pubnix with 'npm exec html-validate'. No more warnings unless they're expected, like empty <a> tags, which are needed for webmentions on pages, blog posts and notes.

I restructured the CSS stylesheets, but kept the look as good as I could like the envs main site. All bash and PHP/JavaScript scripts run as they should. My blog management scripts SHOULD work well enough and the written notes are always checked after editing with 'npm exec html-validate, so I can immediately spot any errors on the posts or notes before I really publish them and can defer/edit them again until no more errors occur.

I never built a complete website before and I'm really proud of it. Especially the integration for webmentions with ActivityPub support was not so easy, because I didn't want to use some fully developed blogging engine like Wordpress or something like this, which certainly have plugins for implementing webmentions and ActivityPub. I did this all by myself, allthough I'm using services like webmention.io and brid.gy. But the tools to post were developed by myself.

You can visit my page at https://dan.envs.net/ and have a look at it.

#envs #php #css #javascript #webmention #activitypub #development #indieweb

(https://dan.envs.net/notes/2026-03-02T17:26)

## __**Note** from: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:45 CET

Link

I've now implemented a feed for short notes, replies, likes, reposts and bookmarks which fully support webmentions and you can also reply to these notes with webmentions.

The pages are not the most beautiful, but I want to have the default look of the envs.net pubnix, although I did some little tweaks to the CSS file for supporting webmentions.

The notes feed page can be accessed with https://dan.envs.net/notes which aggregates the latest 10 notes. Support for browsing all articles will be implemented soon. For now I'm satisfied with the notes page, bacause I did all the PHP, CSS and JS by myself and wrote some bash scripts to manage my blog articles and my notes.

This post also serves as a **first test** , so things can go wrong, but I tested everything as good as I could. So if you're reading this, everything should be fine.

**Hashtags:** #envs #indieweb #webmention #pubnix

~dan |
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Website: | https://dan.envs.net
Email: | ~dan <[email protected]>
XMPP JID: | [email protected]
Mastodon/ActivityPub: | @dan
Keyoxide.org: | ~dan <[email protected]>
About me: | I'm an enthusiastic computer and IT hobbyist, but I'm not a professional at all. All I've learned in that field, was a private endeavor. (https://dan.envs.net/notes/2026-02-24T00:45)

My website now fully supports webmentions. This is a test in sending them automatically from my posts.

(https://dan.envs.net/blog/2026/2026-02-20-this-blog-now-fully-supports-webmentions)

#indieweb #webmentions #envs #smolnet

Hi, Fediverse and especially #envs pubnixers!

As you might have noticed, I moved my account from @fab to @dan. So it's time for a new #introduction!

I'm very sceptical about the corporate web social media and I always avoided Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and things like that like the plague. But the Fediverse isn't bound to corporate interests, federates and can be self hosted. These things made it interesting. And I was curious, so I made an account on the pleroma.envs.net instance of the envs.net pubnix.

I wanted to join a pubnix for a very long time and did a lot of research for the right one and I think I found the right one with #envs. My fellow pubnixers and tildizens seem to be a bunch of very nice and helpful folks, and I already made a lot of good experiences. But I had to choose the username 'dan', because 'fab' was already taken. So my shell account is now '[email protected]' just like my email address and my webpage, Gopher Hole and Gemini Capsule can be found under the username ~dan. But I still had the @fab Mastodon/ActivityPub account, so I decided now to move to the new account @dan to make all my accounts with the same username on envs.net.

As I told in my previous introduction, I'm an enthusiastic computer, GNU/Linux and *BSD hobbyist, although I never worked in the IT field professionally. I like to tinker around with my little homelab and my own VPS servers running FreeBSD. I'm also interested in the #smolnet / #indieweb. And since Mon, 12 Jan 2026 I'm a proud member of the envs.net pubnix/tilde, where I can make some experiences on a shared multiuser Linux system with other makers, tinkerers, computer hobbyists and professionals, and other like-minded folks which is very intriguing.

I'm especially at home in the shell and keyboard-centric environments like AwesomeWM, which I use on all of my workstations running Artix Linux (OpenRC). I always prefer simple TUI/CLI programs over bloated GUI applications. My interest in different programming languages is diverse, be it Go, bash/sh, Rust, Python or even Perl. I try to use the language which fits best to the problem. But all I know about computers, Linux, Unix and the *BSDs I've learned-by-doing or to solve a specific problem or need.

I hope to have a lot of fun in the long-run on the envs.net pubnix/tilde, and that we're having a good time together.

That's it for my introduction for now, although I don't know if I'll post regularly on the Fediverse. You can always contact me on XMPP with my JID '[email protected]' or via email too, if you like. So have fun!

Best wishes,
~dan

#intoduction #pubnix #tilde #envs #smolnet #indieweb

I set up a website on my pubnix account at the envs.net tilde which I joined on Mon, 12 Jan 2026:

https://dan.envs.net/

I didn't set up a full blown blog but I created a small php script which lists all my Gopher phlog posts with links to the envs.net Gopher-To-Web proxy. So you don't need to leave your webbrowser, if you want to read them. I write all my posts and articles on my Gopher phlog and I'll mainly focus on my experiences and progress on the envs.net pubnix. For the website itself I took some inspiration from the "slash" pages, which are popular in the smolnet/indieweb. Although the site makes some use of PHP it doesn't use any JavaScript, except on my image gallery and a little bit on the guestbook. I adapted the guestbook look to the main site as much as I could and IMO it fits good into my site, which uses the main CSS/styles of the envs.net main page and I like it. The image gallery gets a little out of line with it's style, and it wouldn't be easy to adapt its style to the rest of the page.

There's also an RSS feed file with all new phlog posts with the full text of the last 10 entries, so you should be able to read them in your preferred feed reader without accessing the posts with a gopher browser, if you like.

I'm still a pubnix newbie, but I advance in my abilities to use it fast and it's really fun to work and create with the other tinkerers, makers, hackers, tildizens and like-minded folks.

It would make me really happy, if you would visit my site and drop me a line in my guestbook. :)

#phlog #blog #pubnix #tilde #ndieweb #smolnet #tilde #envs

Yay! I signed up on my first pubnix ever. I made a shell account at envs.net, which I was already using the Mastodon/ActivityPub service from (this one). Unfortunately the username "fab" was already taken, so I chose "dan" from my real name Daniel. I signed up on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 so I'm a member for a week and 3 days now. If you have at least a little experience with the commandline, then it won't be too hard even for users who never participated with a pubnix. And envs.net is already very well set up right from the beginning.

https://envs.net/
gemini://envs.net/
gopher://envs.net/

I was busily learning and setting things up the last days, but I still have to find my way around a little. All those special gadgets and gizmos that are available to the user are amazing! I've already set up a web page, a Gemini page and a little Gopher Hole with a phlog, which I'll use for publishing about my experiences and learning progress the most. I got also active on the Tildeverse IRC servers with my nick "fab" (not "dan", that was taken) and am mainly hanging around in the #meta and #envs channels (ircs://irc.tilde.chat:6697). I'm not very experienced with IRC and try my best to follow the rules, but if you're nice, then nobody would bite your head off, if you accidently do something wrong. But there were and still are a lot of things I had/have to learn.

Most of the people at envs.net and on the Tildeverse IRC servers are very helpful and friendly. And they're very diverse. A really nice bunch of folks (at least those I already talked to). So if you are in search for a general purpose tilde with a minimalist approach, I can only recommend envs.net.

But if you are new to Pubnixes, I recommend a longer research. They can differ a lot. Some have special interests or purposes, some are especially for LGBTQ people and they may have different demands in participation activity and behaviour. I even found one especially about baking (breadpunks.club). So do your homework before signing up to your first pubnix.

But I can't say often enough, how much fun I had the last week. Setting up, learning, creating. It's great! Here are my links:

https://dan.envs.net/ - This is just an "About and Contacts" page (yet)

gemini://envs.net/~dan/ - This is also mostly a short informational Gemini page

gopher://envs.net/1/~dan/ - This is my Gopher Hole with a phlog. I think this will be my main publishing platform about my adventures and experiences in the Tildeverse. It's maintained with a CLI app called "burrow" by James Tomasino, which is a breeze to use. Some short configuration and you have your Gopher Hole and phlog up and running.

https://gopher.envs.net/envs.net/1/~dan/ - This is a web proxy to my Gopher Hole at envs.net

If you want to write to me concerning my pages or my shell account at envs.net in general, you can write email to '~dan <[email protected]>'. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

And if you ever wanted to know how it's like to be part of a multiuser Linux system with cool, friendly and helpful people try a Tilde/Pubnix!

#envs #pubnix #tilde #tildeverse