A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-24T19:04:33+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 2022-06-16T17:29:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-entities?rev=1655400552&do=diff Friendica API entities Activities Attribute Type Nullable like List of Contacts No dislike List of Contacts No attendyes List of Contacts No attendno List of Contacts No attendmaybe List of Contacts No Attachment Attribute 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 2022-11-26T09:16:09+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 2022-06-24T14:54:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/accesskeys?rev=1656082448&do=diff Accesskeys reference Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that allow you to easily navigate the user interface. Access keys are currently not available with the Frio theme. The specific key combinations depend on how your browser’s the modifier key setting. For an overview of modifier keys in different browsers, have a lookat text/html 2022-11-04T15:42:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/database?rev=1667576554&do=diff Database Tables Table Description 2fa_app_specific_passwordTwo-factor app-specific _password 2fa_recovery_codes Two-factor authentication recovery codes 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 2022-06-22T06:54:22+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 2022-06-06T07:24:26+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 2022-06-24T15:04:21+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 2022-06-24T14:31:05+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 2022-08-24T04:39:00+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 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 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 2022-06-16T16:37:29+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 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 2024-01-21T14:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/network_filters?rev=1705846641&do=diff Filtering your Network Stream An alternative to use the filters explained on this page is to use channels for selecting the content one wants to be shown. Filter Addons Content Filter / NSFW The content filter addon is a simple filter, that matches words specified by the user to the text of postings in the network stream. If the text includes one of the words, the posting will be collapsed and the word that triggered the filter will be displayed to the user why the posting was collapsed. The… text/html 2022-05-04T06:04:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/scheduler?rev=1651644279&do=diff Scheduler - time controlled publishing Why is this useful? For different reasons it might be useful no to publish something the moment you've written it. For example, you might want to post a reminder for an event you've just created. Or you want to ensure a bigger audience (to be awake) so you don't publish the posting far after midnight when you finally finished writing it, but rather during the next morning. 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 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 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 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 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 2022-06-24T14:20:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developer?rev=1656080428&do=diff Developer Documentation Collection of articles aimed for Developers * Where to get started to help improve Friendica * Autoloader with Composer * Using Composer * Domain-Driven-Design * How To Move Classes to src * Friendica on GitHub Contact Possibilities If you want to reach out to the development community of Friendica, please join the Developer Forum on the projects forum node. If you need to contact the core team privately you can send a mail to text/html 2021-01-12T18:31:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/events?rev=1610476289&do=diff Events A special form of postings are events. The events you and your contacts share can be found at /events on your node. To get there go to your wall and follow the tab “events” Depending on the theme you are using, there might be an additional link from the navigation menu to this page. 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 2022-06-25T06:28:12+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…