A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-24T14:32:36+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2022-07-05T14:40:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/abstract?rev=1657032057&do=diff Abstracts Using BBCode for formatting your postings, you can add an abstract, a short summary, to your postings. Especially in the case of Twitter (and other length limited networks to which Friendica exports your postings via the API) Friendica will try to automatically decide which part of the posting is relevant. But often you as the author of a posting knows better. text/html 2022-06-25T10:10:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/addons?rev=1656151801&do=diff Friendica Addon development Please see the sample addon ‘randplace’ for a working example of using some of these features. Addons work by intercepting event hooks - which must be registered. Modules work by intercepting specific page requests (by text/html 2022-06-24T13:39:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/addonstoragebackend?rev=1656077997&do=diff Friendica Storage Backend Addon development Storage backends can be added via addons. A storage backend is implemented as a class, and the plugin register the class to make it available to the system. The Storage Backend Class The class must live in text/html 2020-10-05T23:21:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/text_editor?rev=1601940087&do=diff Creating posts * [Home](help) Here you can find an overview of the different ways to create and edit your post. One click on the Pencil & Paper icon in the top right of your Home or Network page, or the “Share” text box, and the post editor shows up. Below are examples of the post editor in 3 of Friendica's common themes: text/html 2022-06-22T06:54:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/themes?rev=1655880862&do=diff Themes To change the look of friendica you have to touch the themes. The current default theme is frio but there are numerous others. Have a look at the community contributed theme repository for some of the themes (and theme customizations) the community has created. In case none of them suits your needs, there are several ways to change a theme. text/html 2022-06-25T08:57:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/text_comment?rev=1656147450&do=diff Comment, sort and delete posts This article will guide you through the basic interaction possibilities you have on a posting in your network stream. [Screenshot from the interaction possibilities with a postings (in this case an event), taken from the frio theme] Buttons below the Posting * Like / Dislike: With these buttons you can add a like (or dislike) to the posting as quick reaction. The text/html 2022-06-06T07:24:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bot?rev=1654500266&do=diff How to Create a Bot The task for the bot is to pull in RSS/Atom feeds into the Fediverse. Why? There are many wonderful offers on the Internet whose updates are published via RSS. In order to make them easily accessible to the inhabitants of the Fediverse, so-called bots can provide this content as a teaser. text/html 2022-11-26T09:16:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/verify_homepage?rev=1669454169&do=diff Homepage Verification If you want to verify that the website you put into the Homepage field of your Friendica profile really belongs to you, you can do so using the rel-me microformat. Which basically is a machine read-able link to an URL in the internet that is also me text/html 2022-06-24T13:45:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/composer?rev=1656078320&do=diff Using Composer Friendica uses Composer to manage dependencies libraries and the class autoloader both for libraries and namespaced Friendica classes. It’s a command-line tool that downloads required libraries into the vendor folder and makes any namespaced class in text/html 2022-05-03T19:50:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/image_description?rev=1651607429&do=diff Image Descriptions - How to add an description to the images your are posting You can easily add an image description (or ALT text) to an image in your postings. The text will be displayed when the image is hovered with the mouse cursor, and is used by screen readers. text/html 2022-04-22T05:27:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/initicalconfiguration?rev=1650605237&do=diff First Steps Once you have installed Friendica successfully on your server, you might consider some customizations to make the experience better. Subscribe to Relay Services Finding interesting contacts in a new social network like the Fediverse can be hard. To get potentially interesting content onto your Friendica node without subscribing to random people on different node of the Fediverse, you can subscribe your node to a relay service. These relay services take all public postings from sub… text/html 2020-09-27T17:21:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/translations?rev=1601227284&do=diff Friendica translations Overview The Friendica translation process is based on gettext PO files. Basic worflow: * xgettext is used to collect translation strings across the project in the authoritative PO file located in view/lang/C/messages.po text/html 2022-06-16T16:35:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-friendica?rev=1655397358&do=diff Friendica API Overview Friendica provides the following specific endpoints. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints uses the Friendica API entities. Endpoints GET api/friendica/events Returns a list of Event entities for the current logged in user. text/html 2022-06-16T16:09:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-twitter?rev=1655395777&do=diff Twitter API Overview Friendica provides the following endpoints defined in the official Twitter API reference. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints use the Friendica API entities. Different behaviour * screen_name: The nick name in Friendica is only unique in each network but not for all networks. The users are searched in the following priority: Friendica, StatusNet/GNU Social, Diaspora, pump.io, Twitter. If no contact was found by this wa… text/html 2022-06-09T08:51:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bbcode?rev=1654764686&do=diff Friendica BBCode tags reference Friendica is using the BBCode markup language to format postings and comments. Alternatively the admin of a Friendica node can activate an addon to also support Markdown. How a rich text formatted posting or comment will be displayed in other projects of text/html 2024-10-15T10:57:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install?rev=1728989873&do=diff Friendica Installation We've tried very hard to ensure that Friendica will run on commodity hosting platforms - such as those used to host Wordpress blogs and Drupal websites. We offer a manual and an automatic installation. But be aware that Friendica is more than a simple web application. text/html 2022-06-25T06:39:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install-ejabberd?rev=1656139189&do=diff ejabberd and prosody XMPP server with synchronized credentials Ejabberd is a chat server that uses XMPP as messaging protocol that you can use with a large amount of clients. In conjunction with the “xmpp” addon it can be used for a web based chat solution for your users. text/html 2022-06-25T05:50:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/move-account?rev=1656136200&do=diff How to move your account between servers This is an experimental feature * Go to “Settings” -> “Export personal data” * Click on “Export account” to save your account data. * Save the file in a secure place! It contains your details, your contacts, groups, and personal settings. It also contains your secret keys to authenticate yourself to your contacts. text/html 2023-03-26T18:34:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/tools?rev=1679855686&do=diff Admin Tools Friendica Tools In Friendicas bin/ directory is a build in command called console, that provides the following commands: addon Addon management cache Manage node cache config Edit site config contact Contact management createdoxygen Generate Doxygen headers dbstructure Do database updates docbloxerrorchecker Check the file tree for DocBlox errors extract Generate translation str… text/html 2022-06-24T14:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/connectors?rev=1656081065&do=diff Connectors Connectors allow you to connect with external social networks and services. They are only required for posting to existing accounts on Twitter or GNU Social. There is also a connector for accessing your email INBOX. If the following network connectors are installed on your system, select the following links to visit the appropriate settings page and configure them for your account: text/html 2022-06-24T13:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developer-how-to-move-classes-to-src?rev=1656078482&do=diff How To Move Classes to src Friendica uses Composer to manage autoloading. This means that all the PHP class files moved to the src folder will be automatically included when the class it defines is first used in the flow. This is an improvement over the current require usage since files will be included on an actual usage basis instead of the presence of a text/html 2022-06-24T14:14:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/github?rev=1656080081&do=diff Friendica on GitHub Here is how you can work on the code with us. If you have any questions please write to the Friendica developers’ forum. Introduction to the workflow with our GitHub repository * Install git on the system you will be developing on. text/html 2022-06-24T15:04:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy?rev=1656083061&do=diff Groups and Privacy Groups are merely collections of friends. But Friendica uses these to unlock some very powerful features. Setting Up Groups To create a group, visit your Friendica “Contacts” page and select “Create a new group”. Give the group a name. text/html 2022-07-18T09:13:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/improve-performance?rev=1658135620&do=diff How to improve the performance of a Friendica site Feel free to ask in the Friendica support forum if you need some clarification about the following instructions or if you need help in any other way. System configuration Please go to /admin/site/ on your system and change the following values: text/html 2022-06-24T14:49:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/installing-connectors?rev=1656082142&do=diff Installing Connectors (Twitter/GNU Social) Friendica uses addons to provide connectivity to some networks, such as Twitter. There is also a addon to post through to an existing account on a GNU Social service. You only need this to post to an already existing GNU Social account, but not to communicate with GNU Social members in general. text/html 2022-06-24T15:05:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/ssl?rev=1656083128&do=diff Using SSL with Friendica Disclaimer This document has been updated in November 2016. SSL encryption is relevant for security. This means that recommended settings change fast. Keep your setup up to date and do not rely on this document being updated as fast as technologies change! text/html 2022-06-24T15:41:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/tags-and-mentions?rev=1656085268&do=diff Tags and Mentions Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. Mentions People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. You can tag text/html 2022-05-15T09:11:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/two-factor-authentication?rev=1652605861&do=diff Two-Factor Authentication General * A two-factor authentication (2FA) can be configured using a mobile app. Then a Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) application can be used, that automatically generates an authentication code. That code changes after a certain period of time. text/html 2024-01-21T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/user?rev=1705846678&do=diff User Documentation A collection of useful tips and tutorials for users of Friendica. * Abstracts - How to use abstracts in Friendica (or how to apply a content warning to your postings) * Image Descriptions - How to add an description to the images your are posting * Setting up TOTP/2FA security for your Friendica account * Bot - How to create a bot to publish contents of a RSS feed in the Fediverse * Scheduler - Publish Content on a selected date * Account Delegation - Manage mul…