A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-24T20:30:19+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-25T10:10:01+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 2022-06-24T14:31:05+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 2022-06-24T13:37:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/forums?rev=1656077851&do=diff Forums Friendica also lets you create community forums and other types of accounts that can function as discussion forums, celebrity accounts, announcement channels, news reflectors, or organization pages, depending on how you want to interact with others. Management of these pages can be delegated to other accounts, or a parent account can be designated to easily toggle multiple identities. 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 2022-04-22T05:27:17+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 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 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 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 2022-06-24T15:37:35+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.