A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-24T09:01:56+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2024-09-30T20:27:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/cofig-for-small-notes?rev=1727728044&do=diff Configuration Guide for small Nodes This guide aims to provide a collection of settings for nodes installed with limited resources. They are actively used on a small (family) node running on a RaspberryPi 4B (8GB ram). But other restricted environments, e.g. a small VPS or shared hosting fall into targeted hardware range. 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 2022-08-24T04:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developers-intro?rev=1661315940&do=diff Where to get started to help improve Friendica Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. Very different skills are required to make good software, not all of them involve coding! 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 2022-06-24T14:14:41+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 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 2022-06-09T08:51:26+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 2020-11-25T17:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bugs-and-issues?rev=1606326557&do=diff Bugs and Issues If your server has a support page, you should report any bugs/issues you encounter there first. Reporting to your support page before reporting to the developers makes their job easier, as they don't have to deal with bug reports that might not have anything to do with them. Reducing the workload in this way helps us get new features faster. You can also contact the text/html 2022-06-24T14:58:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/message-flow?rev=1656082701&do=diff Friendica Message Flow This page documents some of the details of how messages get from one person to another in the Friendica network. There are multiple paths, using multiple protocols and message formats. Those attempting to understand these message flows should become familiar with (at the minimum) the text/html 2022-06-25T06:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/settings?rev=1656138492&do=diff Settings If you are the admin of a Friendica node, you have access to the Admin Panel where you can configure your Friendica node. Overview In the main page of the admin panel you will see an information summary about your node. Queues The three numbers shown are respectively: - The retry queue: These outgoing messages couldn’t be received by the remote host, and will be resent at longer intervals before being dropped entirely after 30 days. - The deferred queue: These internal tasks failed… 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 2022-06-24T15:37:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/making-friends?rev=1656085055&do=diff Making Friends Friendship in Friendica can sometimes take on different meaning. But let’s keep it simple; you want to be friends with somebody. How do you do it? The Directories Friendica has two different kinds of “address book”. The directory of the Friendica server you are registered on and a global directory to which your and other Friendica servers submit account information. 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 2022-06-25T09:10:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/account-basics?rev=1656148223&do=diff Account Basics Registration Not all Friendica sites allow open registration. If registration is allowed, you will see a “Register” link immediately below the login prompt on the site’s home page. Following this link will take you to the site registration page. The strength of our network is that lots of different sites are all completely compatible with each other. If the site you’re visting doesn’t allow registration, or you think you might prefer another one, there is a 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 2024-03-31T17:39:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/admin?rev=1711906760&do=diff Friendica Administration Most of the administrative work--basic settings, user management etc.--of a Friendica node is done in the Admin Panel (example.com/admin) of the node. Some of the administrative features, mostly new ones, have not made it into the panel yet, but they are available with the command line interface of Friendica, which is provided by text/html 2025-01-05T18:52:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-authentication?rev=1736103163&do=diff Friendica API authentication You can authenticate requests to the Friendica API via two methods: HTTP Basic and OAuth. HTTP Basic is easy to use, but it requires your account password, so it grants complete access to your account. OAuth is significantly more involved, but has the ability to grant limited permissions, so that someone can use the text/html 2022-06-16T16:37:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-gnu-social?rev=1655397449&do=diff GNU Social API Overview Friendica provides the following endpoints defined in the official GNU Social Twitter-like API reference. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints use the Friendica API entities. Implemented endpoints * GET api/account/rate_limit_status * POST api/account/update_profile_image text/html 2022-06-24T13:43:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/autoloader?rev=1656078181&do=diff Autoloader with 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 2022-06-24T13:45:20+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 2023-07-27T04:41:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/fulltext_search?rev=1690432881&do=diff Search in Friendica Depending on the settings users of Friendica can perform searches for various things using the /search page (or the search bar in the upper navigation panel). The search is performed on the Friendica node itself, so only the content known to the Friendica node can be found. 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 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 2022-06-24T15:42:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/remove-account?rev=1656085372&do=diff Remove Account We don't like to see people leave Friendica, but if you need to remove your account, you should visit the URL http://example.com/removeme with your web browser. You will need to be logged in at the time. You will be asked for your password to confirm the request. If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be marked as deleted. There is no grace period, this action cannot be reverted. Most of your content and user data will be deleted shortly in the bac… 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 2022-06-17T07:38:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/update?rev=1655451536&do=diff Updating Friendica When a new version of Friendica is published a release note contains details about the updating process of that version specific. Including known cliffs during the process and cornerstone releases that you should update to before installing the newest release. text/html 2022-10-17T05:30:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/vagrant?rev=1665984600&do=diff Vagrant for Friendica Developers Getting started Vagrant is a virtualization solution for developers. No need to setup up a webserver, database etc. before actually starting. Vagrant creates a virtual machine for you that you can just run inside VirtualBox and start to work directly on Friendica.