A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-21T22:20:56+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-25T06:28:12+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 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/config?rev=1600629582&do=diff Config values that can only be set in config/local.config.php * [Home](help) Friendica's configuration is done in two places: in PHP array configuration files and in the `config` database table. Database config values overwrite the same file config values. 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 2022-07-18T09:13:40+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 2022-06-24T13:45:20+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 2022-06-25T09:10:23+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 2022-06-24T13:39:57+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 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 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 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 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 2022-06-24T13:43:01+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 2022-06-06T07:24:26+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 2022-06-24T14:31:05+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 2022-11-04T15:42:34+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 2022-06-24T14:14:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/github?rev=1656080081&do=diff Friendica on GitHub Here is how you can work on the code with us. If you have any questions please write to the Friendica developers’ forum. Introduction to the workflow with our GitHub repository * Install git on the system you will be developing on. 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 2024-01-21T14:17:21+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 2022-06-22T06:54:22+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 2020-09-27T17:21:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/translations?rev=1601227284&do=diff Friendica translations Overview The Friendica translation process is based on gettext PO files. Basic worflow: * xgettext is used to collect translation strings across the project in the authoritative PO file located in view/lang/C/messages.po 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.