A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-25T17:47:45+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-24T14:49:02+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 2022-06-24T13:43:01+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 2022-06-22T06:54:22+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 2022-06-25T10:10:01+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 2022-06-16T16:37:29+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 2022-06-09T08:51:26+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 2021-05-24T05:54:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/home?rev=1621835671&do=diff Friendica Documentation and Resources User Manual * General functions - first steps * [Account Basics](help/Account-Basics) * [New User Quick Start](help/Quick-Start-guide) * [Creating posts](help/Text_editor) * [BBCode tag reference](help/BBCode) 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 2022-06-24T14:58:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/protocol?rev=1656082694&do=diff Used Protocols Friendicas DFRN Protocol * Document with the DFRN specification * Schema of the contact request process * Schema of the contact request confirmation * Description of the message flow ActivityStreams Friendica is using ActivityStreams in version 1.0 for its activities and object types. Additional types are used for non standard activities. * Link to the specification * List of used ActivityStreams verbs and object types. Salmon Salmon is used as a message exchang… text/html 2022-06-24T15:49:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/smarty3-templates?rev=1656085774&do=diff Friendica Templating Documentation Friendica uses Smarty 3 as PHP templating engine. The main templates are found in /view/templates theme authors may overwrite the default templates by putting a files with the same name into the /view/themes/$themename/templates 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…