A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-22T12:56:07+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-16T17:29:12+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 2022-06-09T08:51:26+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 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 2022-06-24T14:49:02+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 2022-07-05T14:40:57+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 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 2022-06-16T16:43:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-mastodon?rev=1655397803&do=diff Mastodon API Overview Friendica provides the following endpoints defined in the official Mastodon API reference. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Clients Supported apps For supported apps please have a look at the FAQ Unsupported apps Android * Fedilab Automatically uses the legacy text/html 2024-01-21T14:38:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/channel?rev=1705847906&do=diff Channels Channels were introduced in version 2023.12 to Friendica. They allow users to define rules that are used to filter the content displayed in the channels timeline. Channels can be used as alternative to the usual network stream sorting and the usage of filters. You can define channels in your account settings in the channels section. 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