The same thing happens here with the client and the website of the instance. The 500 error occurs with almost every other action. #Friendica is no longer usable.

@support @helpers

[strong]Friendica: Unvollständige Federation mit Lemmy[/strong]

Wenn ich die Lemmy Community https://feddit.org/c/heidelberg der ich seil längerer Zeit folge direkt öffne, sehen die ersten sechs Beiträge so aus:

Wenn ich sie mir jedoch über Friendica anschaue sehen ich jedoch nur die drei Beiträge davon, die ich selbst erstellt habe:

Sprich die Hälfte der Beiträge fehlt. [strong]Woran kann das liegen ?[/strong]

#Friendica #Frage #Lemmy #Federation #Beiträge #2025-04-28 !Friendica Support @Matthias

@Friend Icare #Friendica is using external media (like youtube) directly and does not "proxify" them. For YT videos there is or was an addon for redirecting it to an #Invidious instance. Since Google started blocking such instances, there are only a few working left. My favorite is https://inv.nadeko.net . So your administrator needs configure it unless not yet done.

For the other external references, I have no idea, just block 3rd-party cookies, I guess.

[strong]Frage: Gibt es die Möglichkeit Beiträge von Accounts denen ich folge automatisch weiterzusagen?[/strong]

Ich hatte in Erinnerung das es so was gibt oder gab, bin mir aber alles andere als sicher. Das wäre sehr gut um die Beiträge von Menschen, Gruppen und Institutionen z. B. aus einer Stadt zu bündeln.

#Frage #Friendica #Accounts #Weitersagen #AutomatischesWeitersagen #2025-04-10 !Friendica Support

[strong]Friendica: Benutzerrechte festlegen?[/strong]

Auf meiner kleinen Miniinstanz habe ich die Benutzerregistration deaktiviert und erstelle neue Accounts bei Bedarf via Moderation. Nun ist mir aufgefallen das zwei so erstellte Benutzer Adminrechte haben, was so natürlich nicht gewollt ist. Wie kann ich ihnen diese Rechte wieder entziehen?

Danke für Eure Tipps und Hilfe im Voraus! 😀

#Frage #Friendica #Benutzer #Benutzerrechte #Verwaltung #german #2025-03-27 !Friendica Admins

Bookface 1.6 introduces a new feature called "Postboxes" that allows you to create a post with a colorful background like a similar feature on Facebook. It's built into the Bookface scheme, but I also created TWO add-ons for Friendica if a server administrator wants to roll it out for all of their users regardless of what theme they prefer.

Postbox: simply adds a minified stylesheet to the head with the Postbox styling. It doesn’t add any interface for creating a Postbox, but users can still create them manually with BBcode.

Zen Postbox: adds the minified stylesheet to the head, but also adds a tool to the post composer to insert a Postbox or wrap selected text in one.

To manually create a Postbox just wrap your text in the Postbox class BBcode like this:

[class=postbox-redblue]Text that will be wrapped[/class]

Make sure to PREVIEW it before you post it! While Friendica's Postboxes do allow more content than just plain text, certain formatting blocks can't be placed inside them.

If everything looks good, go ahead an POST it. Anyone using Bookface or any server using either the "Postbox" or "Zen Postbox" add-ons will see it like this:

If the "Zen Postbox" add-on is enabled it adds a button for wrapping/inserting a Postbox to the post editor:

Full Documentation of the "Zen Postbox" add-on is available as a GitLab Wiki.

Keep in mind that other servers that don't implement Postbox styling, other platforms (like Mastodon), and third-party apps will not show these colored backgrounds. This feature only works in the Friendica webapp/website.

#bookface #friendica @Friendica Admins @Friendica Developers

Das Fediverse ist groß und wächst stetig weiter. Seit seinen Anfängen 2008 dominieren textbasierte Plattformen wie StatusNet, Friendica oder heutzutage Mastodon. In diesem Vortrag wollen wir einmal schauen, was es abseits des Formates „Text“ so im Fediverse gibt und wie Kulturschaffende diese Kanäle nutzen können.

Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The original video can be viewed here: https://media.ccc.de/v/clt25-238-fediverse-abseits-von-text-im-stream

[strong]Friendica: Welchen Sinn macht die Option Öffentlichen Beiträge für anonymen Besucher zu sperren?[/strong]

Es gibt bei den Einstellungen folgende Option die es ermöglicht anonymen Besuchern der Webseite den Zugriff auf die öffentlich eingestellten Beiträge zu verweigern.

Für mich persönlich ist das durchaus sinnvoll, da ich meine Beiträge ja fürs Fediverse und nicht für Google und Co. schreibe. Nun stellt sich aber dennoch die Sinnfrage, wenn ca. 80 Prozent der eigenen Kontakte eine Plattform (Mastodon) nutzen die die Beiträge nicht korrekt darstellen und den ursprünglichen Beitrag auch nicht inline laden kann. Deren Nutzer also darauf angewiesen sind anonym über den Server auf der der Beitrag erstellt wurde darauf zuzugreifen.

[strong]Wie geht Ihr damit um? Welche Lösungen habt Ihr dafür gefunden?[/strong]

#Friendica #Beiträge #ÖffentlicheBeiträge #AnonymeZugriffe #Mastodon #Frage #2024-03-24 !Friendica Support

[strong]Friendica: Warum sind in den Kommentaren keine Profilbilder von Lemmy Accounts zu sehen?[/strong]

Ja ich weiß das auf Lemmy die Sache mit den Benutzeraccounts etwas anders gehandhabt wird. Aber das Profilbild des Accounts der den Beitrag eingestellt hat sieht man ja auch. Hier ein Beispiel:

https://feddit.org/post/9571538

#Frage #Friendica #Lemmy #Feddit #Profilbilder #Benutzeraccounts #2025-03-22 !Friendica Support

#Friendica people! I think #Bookface is getting close to another release. So let me know if there is anything you've noticed that should be tweaked or fixed for the next major version. If I can, of course. Bookface is just CSS and I can only style what's already there in the "Frio" theme.

@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins

Does anybody know how homepage verification with Friendica works? I'm going with this wiki entry.

freifunkh@friendica.me has a homepage in its profile and the homepage has a link to the profile with rel="me" set. These are the results:

• Opening the profile in a browser without login => homepage URL visible and marked as verified (✔️).
• Opening the profile while being logged into Friendica (different server) => no URL visible.
• Opening the profile while being logged into Mastodon (different server) => no URL visible.

Mastodon App even shows a warning, saying there is no verified link.

#Friendica @Friendica Support

Ich habe gerade den "Leitfaden für den Instanz-Betrieb im dezentralen Netzwerk - Datenschutz bei Mastodon" von gefunden.
Dieser gibt neben grundsätzlichen Informationen auf was Instanzbetreiber achten müssen, vor allem auch eine sehr praktische Sammlung an Musterdokumenten unter CC BY-ND 4.0-Lizenz. Ihr könnt es also für euere Instanzen anpassen und nutzen.

Auch relevant für @Friendica Admins / @Friendica Support

Auf einem abstrakten Niveau sind die Anforderungen, die wir beschreiben, auch auf andere Plattformen des Fediverse übertragbar. Dennoch gibt es einige Aspekte, die von der konkreten Plattform und Software-Implementierung abhängen. So sind zum Beispiel die Möglichkeiten, rechtliche Texte einzubinden und anzuzeigen, unterschiedlich.

Danke@DS_Stiftung@social.bund.de

https://stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxisthemen/datenschutz-bei-mastodon

#impressum #dsgvo #fediverse #friendica #mastodon #tos #deutschland #datenschutz

Datenschutz bei Mastodon

Die Stiftung Datenschutz wurde im Januar 2013 von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Stiftung privaten Rechts gegründet. Sie ist gemeinnützig und verfolgt keine gewerblichen Interessen.

^{stiftungdatenschutz.org}

I moved the #Friendica Wiki to another server. I need some people to test it and see if all works. I will then solve the problems pointed out.

The initial setup was not done by me. It was still on a server with php 7.4 because it did not work with 8.x due to some plugins. I removed those plugins, apparently not maintained since 2014.

I also saw that it loads some js from some CDN, I don't like that either, so tips welcome on that. Maybe there is a plugin that stores such stuff locally?

Also can you suggest a free service to analyze your webpage, show problem, broken links and such?

I saw that the Avatar (only a systemwide standard avatar for all users) is not displayed in my Firefox, but looks fine on Chromium. May be a DNS issue, so local issue only, seems tailscale some how messes up my DNS resolution. But please have a look for any embedded stuff that does not load!

Send me screenshots if you like and/or links to the problem page.

Here is the wiki.friendi.ca

@helpers

Hi @developers
since my #Friendica server social.yl.ms seems to be unrecoverable, it seems there was a fault in the database that now prevents me to restore the backups I got and I have no motivation to restore it anymore you read this post coming from Pleroma.

I will attempt to update git.friendi.ca in a few minutes, therefor I will shutdown the server, do a backup of the VM and restart the server and start updates in the VM. Then I will reboot the VM.

Finger crossed this will only take a few minutes.

Please could anyone let me know if the message actually shows up in the dev forum?

!Friendica Support

Friendica has a LOT of feeds. Too many really. It's confusing. Overwhelming. Oh, and they're apparently called TIMELINES here. I've been trying to figure out which ones I should be using that are similar to the ones I used on Facebook.

Over on Facebook most people probably never go beyond the very awful "News Feed" which is full of algorithm-driven, AI-generated, and advertising garbage. And the only people, groups, or pages you see there are the ones you regularly interact with. Which is why for years I've been using the other feeds on Facebook, and they're the only thing that actually makes that platform usable IMO. But it's hard to try and figure out what Friendica "Timelines" are the closest corollary to the Facebook ones?

My best guesses are:

What's Hot = News Feed: It's a fire hose of posts from accounts you don't follow that are getting a lot of engagement. However, I have no clue what kinds of interactions or how many get something into this feed. There is also a "Discover" feed that says it's supposed to show "Posts from accounts that you don't follow but might like" and I have no clue how, without an algorithm, it would determine what I might like. Apparently it doesn't or can't because that feed is empty for me.

Latest Activity = All Feed: because it's based on people you're connected to and shows all their latest interactions (Posts, Likes, Shares, and Comments) including on posts by accounts you don't follow.

For You = Friends Feed: which I think is just posts from people listed as "Mutual Friendship" in your Contacts, meaning you are following them, they are following you.

Latest Activity + Circles/Account Types > Groups = Groups Feed: there doesn't appear to a separate Groups feed in Friendica.

Latest Activity + Circles > Interests = Pages Feed: at least I think "Interests" is referring to "Pages" but I'm not sure, and there doesn't appear to be a separate "Interests" feed.

It would be nice if you could filter the "Network" feeds by more than one thing at a time. There is no way to "stack" filters or save that view. Which is too bad because that would be a killer feature akin to Bluesky's custom algorithms!

As for the other "Timelines" in Friendica:

"Latest posts" and "Latest Creation" are obviously because stuff doesn't necessarily arrive on your server at the same time it was sent from another one. Though I'm not sure anything posted to social media is so time-sensitive you'd need these feeds since I assume the same stuff will show up under "Latest Activity."

"Personal" only shows posts that @ mention you. "Sharers of Sharers" sounds like a feed of what you would call "Friends of Friends" on Facebook. It's unclear what puts someone in "Quiet Sharers" though. It sounds like "Mutual Friendships" that just don't post much, but how often is often?

I'm guessing "Starred" means posts I've LIKED? Or does it only mean posts I've actually gone to the "More..." drop-down and selected "Add Star"? Or BOTH?

"Images," "Audio," and "Video" are pretty self-explanatory, I guess if you're here for the photos, podcasts, and TikTokish content. I've also seen on servers that have a lot of add-ons enabled people might have additional feeds for other platforms they are connected to, which are self-explanatory.

"Local Community" and "Global Community" appear to be the same feeds as under the "Community" button in the main navigation. Which is redundant, but okay.

Then I've also seen instructions for new users to go into Settings > Social Networks > General Social Media Settings and change the drop-down to "Any conversation my follows interact with, including likes" or your feeds will be pretty bare.

It's little wonder this confuses people coming from other platforms. It's...a lot.

#friendica

!Friendica Support

https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/move-account mentions "Please consider that this is only possible on servers with open registration. On other systems only the administrator can add accounts with an uploaded file."

I run an instance where registrations require admin approval, how do I as administrator import a user's account export from another server into my server?

#friendica

v.01

!Friendica Support
#friendica Q&A @Tutorial

How does the setting:
'php_path' =>, definable in the /config/local.config.php or by the console via /bin/console config work exactly?

The setting 'php_path' => '/usr/bin/php', that actually also shows up in the crontab -e file doesn't exist as an existing folder structure and/or file, at least on this standard ubuntu server installation, but was the original setting of this instance when we ported it from a friendica beta hosting service over here to a single IP VPS server with a single domain. And till now with that setting this instance ran quite well.

Where does /usr/bin/php actually point to, by whom is ist accessed (www-data?) and is there a way to change the reference it points to (if it is actually a reference inside friendica)?

On this server, in the case of the installed friendica versions 2024.xx we set this to:
'php_path' => '/etc/php/8.1/fpm/' and for now the display in the admin panel looks quite right:
PHP version 8.1.31 php.ini /**/8.1/fpm/php.ini

!Friendica Support

First of all, sorry for my English, I use a translator.

I am using Friendica version 2024.12, database version is 1576/1576 and the post update version is 1550/1550.

I have changed my storage in Friendica from “Database” to “Filesystem”.

I have selected /var/friendica_storage as the path -> drwxr-xr-x 258 www-data www-data 4096 2 Mar 15:49 /var/friendica_storage

This setting was also applied:

sudo -u www-data bin/console storage list:
Sel | Name
-----------------------
* | Filesystem
| Database

Then I execute the following:

sudo -u www-data bin/console storage move
[2025-03-02 14:49:46] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:49:50] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:49:55] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:49:59] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:04] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:08] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:13] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:18] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:22] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:27] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:33] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:38] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:43] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:49] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:54] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:50:59] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:04] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:10] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:16] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:22] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:27] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:32] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:37] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:44] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:49] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:51:54] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:52:00] Moved 5000 files
[2025-03-02 14:52:02] Moved 2180 files
[2025-03-02 14:52:03] Moved 137180 files total
[Error] Friendica\Console\Storage::doExecute(): Return value must be of type int, null returned

It ends with this error message. But the files are present in the /var/friendica_storage folder.

The query in MariaDB shows that the images are still stored in the database:

MariaDB [xxxxxxxxxxxx]> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM photo WHERE data IS NOT NULL;
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 137228 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0,419 sec)

MariaDB [xxxxxxxxxxxx]> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM photo WHERE data IS NOT NULL;
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 137246 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0,39 sec)

But probably also in /var/friendica_storage, because this is getting bigger.

So the images are now saved simultaneously in the database AND in the /var/friendica_storage folder, including new images!

I have now tried this process twice and both times the error occurred. I restored my database backup.

What have I done wrong, what can I improve or change?

#Friendica, #Help

Hallo #friendica community. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, Galerien darzustellen, also viele Fotos auf einmal? Ich versuche, den Nutzen des Dienstes gegenüber #mastodon und #pixelfed für mich zu evaluieren....

#fediverse #fotos

🎉 Die heutige Fediverse-Sprechstunde ist zu Ende.

Ein herzliches Dankeschön geht an Tobias tobias@social.diekershoff.de für seine Ausführungen zu #Friendica ! Wir hatten eine spannende Runde mit vielseitigen Themen, die sowohl für #neuhier als auch für fortgeschrittene Nutzer interessant waren. Im Fokus standen heute Anwendungen im #Fediverse, insbesondere zu Friendica. Mein Dank gilt auch allen Teilnehmenden der Sprechstunde, die sich aktiv eingebracht und so erneut zu einer gelungenen Veranstaltung beigetragen haben.

Diesmal haben wir den Vortrag von Tobias aufgezeichnet. Der Link kommt morgen.

🗓️ Der nächste Termin steht bereits fest: Donnerstag 27.03.2025 um 19:30 Uhr

Weitere Details folgen.

Lang lebe Fediverse! 🚀🌐 #Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla

!Friendica Support Trying to install #Friendica on #Debian, using instructions at https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/develop/doc/Install.md

Can't seem to satisfy some of the PHP library requirements, namely IntlChar, IDN, OpenSSL. I read somewhere that installing openssl covers PHP libraries for same. Is this true? What about IntlChar and OpenSSL? Does php-intl cover IntlChar?

[strong]Friendica: Warum kann ich den Sharky Beitrag nicht aufrufen?[/strong]

Hallo Zusammen, ich wollte diesen Sharky Beitrag bei mir in Friendica öffnen indem ich wie gewohnt danach suche. Es geht aber nicht, es kommt immer nur 'no result'. Woran kann das liegen? Der Account selbst lässt sich problemlos öffnen, es gibt dort aber keine Inhalte. Mit einen anderen Account auf einer anderen Friendica Instanz (anonsys.net) geht es problemlos.

#Friendica #Frage #Inhalte #Sharky #Öffnen #Probleme #2025-02-16 !Friendica Support

Gut, dann jetzt auch von mir...

#Petition #Fediverse #Friendica #PoweredByRSS

https://savesocial.eu/

🇩🇪

Soziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft retten Nina George, Schriftstellerin, Ehrenpräsidentin European Writers’ Council (EWC) Foto: Heike Blenck Rocko Schamoni, Schriftsteller, Regisseur,...

^{Save Social}

I’ve been playing with #Friendica, running in web mobile mode with #Bookface UI.

If this app ever gets a dedicated mobile client, it’s likely to become the next breakout #SocialWeb platform. It really does offer most of what you want in a #Facebook-like service.

Events? It has that. Groups? It has that too. The only thing that’s actually missing is a marketplace feature. However, someone could probably build that too.

However, once a mobile app is made, I have no doubt we’ll see lots of adoption.

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
#friendica #featureRequest

Hi there,
is there a way to change locally the profile picture displayed of a contact?
Haven't seen any option to that regard in the contact page.

I'm asking in part specifically because of the #eyeContact issues some people have. It's about the fact that they have real problems facing full face pictures that kinda "look straight at you", actually a known psychological effect not only in primates.
(Just stare consistently at a dog and you'll see. Well actually better you don't, unless you know what you are doing)

At the same time that's probably not the only reason a avatar could be unwanted for someone. So, optional I could think of or a standard feature that disallows the display of a avatar or a feature that allows to replace the avatar picture with something chosen by the user.
🤔

Hi @Andreas vom Zwenkauer See und @Rainer "friendica" Sokoll darf ich euch als Profis in Sachen #Zabbix mal was fragen? Der @Michael Vogel hat doch schon vor längerem bei #Friendica diese API eingebaut um mit dieser eine Instanz monitoren zu können:

//              Key für Zabbix
//                'stats_key' => '1234supergeheim',

Habt ihr da vielleicht Tipps und Tricks?

Gerne darf diese Frage auch jeder andere Zabbix Profi beantworten. 😉
@Zabbix Forum

#diaspora #pollFeatures

#diasporaPoll about polling.

#poll feature test, related to a #friendica post about vote by name polling.
If I get this right, D*'s poll feature can have a max of four questions and multiple choice is not available.

Also notable, in comparison with #mastodon poll's, there is no time limit for the poll.
As mastodon allows editing post's, the poll count is reset if the post text is edited, but not the time span of the poll.
Time span is from 5 minutes up to 7 seven days.

📅 Donnerstag, 27.02.2025 – 19:30 Uhr (Online)

Hast du ein spannendes Thema oder möchtest du deine Erfahrungen im Fediverse teilen? Dann sei dabei! Wir suchen noch Vortragende und Themen, die unsere nächste Fediverse-Sprechstunde bereichern.

💡 Für Einsteiger: Du bist neu hier? Kein Problem! Wir helfen dir beim Einstieg: Profil einrichten, Sicherheitstipps, Posten & Vernetzen.

🌍 Für Erfahrene: Du nutzt bereits Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica, Pixelfed, Misskey oder andere Anwendungen? Dann teile dein Wissen mit der Community!

🔗 Gemeinsam lernen, entdecken und vernetzen – sei dabei!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Misskey #FediverseSprechstunde

Quizfrage: Wann habe ich auf dieser #Friendica Instanz für die #MariaDB #Jemalloc aktiviert? 😉
Erstaunt mich immer wieder, was das bringt.

#anonsys.net #Linux #Fediverse #FediAdmin #FriendicaAdmin

🏠 My post and conversations slow loading...

Hello @Friendica Support
What can cause #friendica homepage [strong](My post and conversations)[/strong] to slow down? I set 10 posts per page, some of my posts have 1 or 2 videos embedded, my storage setup is Current [strong]Storage Backend: Filesystem[/strong]

when i click on my home page 🏛️ I notice that my browser takes about 10 seconds to load the post content , sometimes it doesn't even load the Friendica icon , I have to click the refresh button 1 or 2 times,

Before I used to embed videos via #nextcloud, and it worked fine. But then I edited the posts by removing the embedded video from nextcloud and uploading it to friendica and embedding it as an attachment, everything else works very fast . Some suggestions... please

cheers

The Fediverse versus The Federation

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #Fediverse #Federation #Friendica

Stickers

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #Fediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Mastodon

. @Tobias in front of the Social Web room at FOSDEM.

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #Fediverse #Friendica

!Friendica Support

Learning question and a call for action:
Why do people say that the #friendica user interface #UI as seen from a standard laptop desktop, in other words a working station screen, isn't a pleasant experience?

This looks like serious stuff to me, like a #newsPaper outlet similiar to #NYtimes or #ZEIT.

• The page background, seen here on this server as a big center #copyLeftFleur is modifiable.
• The logo kind footer as weel.
• A simple text field for the main header of the page, like in this case [common ground | CC-BY-SA-NC] fits nicely.

Can somebody please #enshittify this #KISS a littel bit, wasting time, attention and selfconfidence of the coder community!

@Jeff Jarvis @Eva Wolfangel @Christian Stöcker @taz @taz @Digitalcourage @Cory Doctorow