A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-20T19:10:25+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-25T06:28:12+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 2022-06-16T16:35:58+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 2022-06-17T07:38:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/update?rev=1655451536&do=diff Updating Friendica When a new version of Friendica is published a release note contains details about the updating process of that version specific. Including known cliffs during the process and cornerstone releases that you should update to before installing the newest release. 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 2022-06-16T17:29:12+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 2022-06-24T14:14:41+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 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 2024-03-31T17:39:20+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 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 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 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 2022-06-25T08:57:30+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 2020-09-27T17:21:24+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. 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