A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-23T04:58:38+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png 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 2022-06-06T10:03:27+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 2022-06-09T08:51:26+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 2022-08-24T04:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developers-intro?rev=1661315940&do=diff Where to get started to help improve Friendica Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. Very different skills are required to make good software, not all of them involve coding! 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 2024-10-15T10:57:53+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 2022-06-25T05:50:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/move-account?rev=1656136200&do=diff How to move your account between servers This is an experimental feature * Go to “Settings” -> “Export personal data” * Click on “Export account” to save your account data. * Save the file in a secure place! It contains your details, your contacts, groups, and personal settings. It also contains your secret keys to authenticate yourself to your contacts. 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 2022-06-24T15:49:34+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 2022-06-24T15:05:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/ssl?rev=1656083128&do=diff Using SSL with Friendica Disclaimer This document has been updated in November 2016. SSL encryption is relevant for security. This means that recommended settings change fast. Keep your setup up to date and do not rely on this document being updated as fast as technologies change! 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