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Making Friends

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T15:37:35+00:00

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.

Friendica Installation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-15T10:57:53+00:00

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.

Themes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-22T06:54:22+00:00

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.

Account Basics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T09:10:23+00:00

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

Autoloader with Composer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:43:01+00:00

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

Friendica BBCode tags reference

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-09T08:51:26+00:00

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

Chats

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T06:59:09+00:00

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.

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00

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.

Domain-Driven-Design

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T14:06:32+00:00

Domain-Driven-Design Friendica uses class structures inspired by Domain-Driven-Design programming patterns. This page is meant to explain what it means in practical terms for Friendica development. Inspiration * * * *

How To Move Classes to src

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:48:02+00:00

How To Move Classes to src Friendica uses Composer to manage autoloading. This means that all the PHP class files moved to the src folder will be automatically included when the class it defines is first used in the flow. This is an improvement over the current require usage since files will be included on an actual usage basis instead of the presence of a

Forums

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:37:31+00:00

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.

Groups and Privacy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T15:04:21+00:00

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.

First Steps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-22T05:27:17+00:00

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…

Settings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T06:28:12+00:00

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…

The Fediverse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-11-11T13:31:56+00:00

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.

Two-Factor Authentication

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-05-15T09:11:01+00:00

Two-Factor Authentication General * A two-factor authentication (2FA) can be configured using a mobile app. Then a Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) application can be used, that automatically generates an authentication code. That code changes after a certain period of time.