A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-25T03:10:17+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-09T08:51:26+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 2022-06-24T15:37:35+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 2022-06-25T06:28:12+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 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 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 2022-07-18T09:13:40+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 2022-06-24T15:49:34+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 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 2024-10-15T10:57:53+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 2022-06-22T06:54:22+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 2022-07-05T14:40:57+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 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 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 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 2022-06-24T13:45:20+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 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 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 2022-06-24T15:41:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/tags-and-mentions?rev=1656085268&do=diff Tags and Mentions Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. Mentions People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. You can tag 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. text/html 2022-06-06T10:03:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/account_delegation?rev=1654509807&do=diff Account Delegation For various reasons it may be desire-able to have more then just one account. For instance to give each account different topics, to manage a forum account or a bot that imports external RSS feeds. Account delegation makes handling the different account more easy. 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 2024-10-15T22:11:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api?rev=1729030302&do=diff Friendica API Friendica offers multiple API endpoints to interface with third-party applications: * Twitter * Mastodon * Friendica-specific * GNU Social Usage HTTP Method API endpoints can restrict the HTTP method used to request them. Using an invalid method results in HTTP error 405 text/html 2022-06-25T06:59:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/chats?rev=1656140349&do=diff Chats There are two possibilities to use chat on your friendica site * IRC Chat * XMPP/Jabber IRC-Chat Addon After activating the addon, you can find the chat at example.com/irc (if your Friendica nodes domain name is example.com). Note: you can use this chat without any login at your site so that everyone could use it. 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 2022-06-24T13:37:31+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 2022-06-24T14:58:21+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 2022-06-24T15:42:52+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 2021-11-11T13:31:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/thefediverse?rev=1636637516&do=diff The Fediverse What is it The word fediverse is a combination of the words Federation, like federated nations, and Universe. It indicates that there is no single entity controlling the whole network. There are lots of diverse places like planets in a universe or like villages on a planet. Each may have different cultures, languages, interests, etc. but they are connected via a communication protocol (Activity Pub/OStatus) so that they can interact. 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…