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That one photogenic friend



Everyone at TechTown attempts to take a bad picture of Rowan in exchange for a payrise.

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@Friendica Support Wenn ich einen öffentlichen Beitrag zusätzlich zu meinen TL-Kontakten auch einem Email-Kontakt schicke, erhält dieser Email-Kontakt auch Email-Benachrichtungen über alle Kommentare?

Zu diesem Thema: Kann ich einen Email-Kontakt dauerhaft im Editor eingeben? Falls ja: wie?

Danke schön für Eure Hilfe . . . Gerhard / oldie



Wo finde ich eine Anleitung zu Friendica-Nachrichten-Relais?

Relaisserver sind großartig, um Inhalte in deinem Server zu verbreiten, besonders für kleine Server - stimmt! Entsprechend würde ich nach dem Tod von gup.pe gerne ein Nachrichten-Relais aufsetzen, welches Beiträge mit #​Brettspiele auf kleinen Instanzen sichtbar macht.
Nur: Wo finde ich eine Anleitung, was nach Festsetzung des Kontotyps zu tun ist? Und wieso kann ein Relais-Konto keinem anderen Relais-Konto folgen? Hier erscheint neuerdings die Fehlermeldung

Dies scheint ein Relais-Konto zu sein. Diese können nicht von Nutzern gefolgt werden.


Vor ein paar Versionen ging das noch.

#Friendica #FriendicaHelp #FriendicaRelays @Friendica Support

in reply to Oliver

@Oliver hat Relay in Friendica noch eine andere Bedeutung? Ich kenne das nur in Zusammenhang mit ganzen Servergruppen folgen. z.B. relay.rollenspiel.monster/
in reply to Tealk

@Tealk Ja, wird aber augenscheinlich nicht auf vielen Instanzen angeboten.
in reply to Oliver

@Oliver @Tealk Relaisserver und Kanalrelais sind zwei unterschiedlichen Sachen. Kanalrelais sind Nutzerkonnten reposten nur Beiträge die anhand eines Filters auf den der Instanz bekannten Seiten finden. Also normaler User kannst du diesen Kanalrelais folgen. Aber die Instanz selber kann den Kanalrelais nicht folgen.

Kanalrelais kann, wenn es der Admin erlaubt, eine User selber anlegen. Relaisserver kann aber nur der Admin hinzufügen damit die Instanz von denen Beiträge bekommt oder sie weiterverteilen.

in reply to Oliver

Ich hab hashtags über relay.fedi.buzz/ abonniert, funktioniert das bei friendica vielleicht auch?
@helpers


@Friendica Support

Hallo,

mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ein paar leere Beiträge in meiner TL habe. Scheinen nur Beiträge mit Bildern zu sein und betrifft nicht alle Beiträge mit Bild.

pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/922869… wird so angezeigt:

troet.cafe/@sudelsurium/115988… ebenfalls leer:

Ist das ein bekanntes Problem oder soll ich ein issue anlegen?

in reply to Serenityfreaksout

Es passiert manchmal und auch nur auf einigen Servern. Ich weiß im Moment noch nicht, was es auslöst.
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Auf squeet me reproduzierbar mit dem Testlink. Interessanterweise auf pirati.ca nicht reproduzierbar. Sollte da was im server log auftauchen zu möglicherweise?
Gibt es etwas, dass dir helfen würde, das Problem besser zu verstehen oder nachzuvollziehen?
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 Merkwürdig. Der Test von heute ist auch sichtbar.
pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/923161…

Das Bild von Pixelfed oben war zunächst sichtbar und verschwand dann nach etwa 5 Minuten.

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Auf meinem Server passiert das auch manchmal. Gibt es da im Log irgendetwas was Dir weiterhelfen könnte?
in reply to Montag

Da ich im Moment noch keinerlei Ansatz habe, weiß ich leider auch nicht, worauf man achten müsste, mit Ausnahme von Exceptions.


Strange new Scholar class



Mr Bettjeman keeps his party in check with the new scholar class which is definitely not completely useless.

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@Friendica Support

There is a fork of Mastodon available, called "Glitch Edition", that has some special features implemented. My new instance at social.defocn42.net is running this fork.

I came upon an interesting error when trying to connect to the instance. Adding the user "m1rk0@social.defcon42.net" failed because of an unknown network. Then i tried it the other way around from the Mastodon instance and could follow myself on Friendica. The connection is now mutual and the Mastodon instance is recognized as "glitchsoc".

Are there known issues with glitchsoc and Friendica? It's weird, that the connection can be established only from one side and is working normally afterwards.

in reply to ⚝ Mirko ⚝

Weird. It should work without any problems. Are the instances on the same machine?


@Friendica Support
Habe gestern meine #Friendica Stable auf "Blutwurz" geupdated (ich musste diesen schönen Namen jetzt einfach mal schreiben) ;-)

Ich nutzte das #bookface scheme unter Frio.
github.com/randompenguin1/book…
Dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass das ich in Desktopgröße einen kleinen Darstellungsschönheitsfehler habe.
Da steht oben jetzt einmal in english "compose" und daneben noch mal in Deutsch, "neuer Beitrag" (siehe Screenshot!). Wie kann ich das vielleicht fixen?

in reply to wolf

I think it will disappear if you update Bookface. There's a (previous) stable version of Bookface, and a version for RC. I think you should use the RC version now.
in reply to Marcus

@Marcus @wolf That's right, I had completely forgotten about that. It has been fixed in Branch 2025.07-rc, along with several other bugs that appeared in connection with 2025.07-rc.


Café Libertad | Lust auf Austausch, Vernetzung, einfach gemütlich einen Kaffee trinken oder auch nur abhängen? | Dann kommt vorbei und lasst und gemeinsam die Zeit hier im Café Libertad gestalten | Jedem 1. Sonntag im Monat 15:00 bis 19:30 Uhr.

Willkommen beim Café Libertad


Hier wollen wir mit Euch zusammen an jeden 1. Sonntag im Monat zwischen 15:00 und 19:30 Uhr im Murx einen Offenen Freiraum mit anarchistischer Grundausrichtung schaffen, in welchen es um Austausch und Vernetzung gehen soll. Natürlich kann man auch einfach nur gemütlich einen Kaffee trinken, oder auch nur abhängen. Es besteht kein Konsumzwang, wenn gewollt kann selbst etwas zu trinken oder zu essen mitgebracht werden. Die Getränke des Cafés gibt es auf Spendenbasis.

Willst Du Dich beim Café Libertad einbringen oder mehr über den Hintergrund erfahren, empfehlen wir Dir den Langtext dazu zu lesen, Du findest ihn auf der Webseite des Murx und auch direkt unter murx-heidelberg.de/cafe-libert… Wir freuen uns wenn Du uns deshalb ansprichst.

Wann: Jeden 1. Sonntag im Monat, 15:00 bis 19:30 Uhr

Wo: Freiraum Murx, Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg-Altstadt

ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg oder Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

Barrierefreiheit: Weitgehend barrierearm

Wichtig: Solltet Ihr Euch krank fühlen, dann bleibt bitte daheim, das Café Libertad gibt es an jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat und wir freuen uns Euch zu sehen wenn es Euch wieder gut geht. Natürlich haben wir wenn Ihr Euch nicht sicher seid vor Ort auch Corona-Tests und Masken.

Info: Leider ist es uns nicht möglich Informationen zum Café Libertad auch in der gut besuchten 'Demo-Info Rhein-Neckar' Telegram Gruppe zuverlässig zur Verfügung zu stellen, da genau diese Beiträge nach kurzer Zeit gezielt wieder gelöscht werden. Wir bedauern dieses unsolidarische Handeln ausdrücklich und versuchen es weiter.

Adresse: Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg | ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg und Alte Brücke, Heidelberg | Barrierefreiheit: Weitgehend barrierearm | Webseite: murx-heidelberg.de | Instagram: @murx_hd | Fediverse: @murx@loma.ml | Bluesky: @murxhd.bsky.social

#CafeLibertad #Freiraum #OpenSpace #Murx #Anarchismus #Input #Mitgestalten #Heidelberg #Altstadt @Heidelberg



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Friendica 2026.01 released !


Just noticed the new friendica version has been released :-). See github.com/friendica/friendica…

For u3a.social I'll be doing an upgrade on a test instance as soon as I can and then plan for the live upgrade (I'll also want to switch to native rather than docker database).

The nice thing about test upgrades is you get to test your backups !

@U3ACommunities Computing #friendica @Friendica Support #fediverse



@Friendica Support

hello. in my mastodon & sharkey instances, i can extend the range of hashtagged posts available from other servers by also following several @relay.fedi.buzz tags, eg

@tag-aur@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-arch@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-archlinux@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-friendicahelp@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-gnucash@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-kmymoney@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-lesbian@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-linuxwomen@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-montypython@relay.fedi.buzz 

unfortunately, these seem non-functional in all my #friendica accounts.

am i doing something wrong? is there a way to make them work pls? 🤔🤷‍♀️

in reply to Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘

relay.fedi.buzz works with Friendica as well. Since this is a relay server, the admin has to follow these accounts from the command line: bin/console relay add .....
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 oh wow, that's great news, thx. 🤗 [albeit also somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts]

i have three remaining #friendica accounts, so here's a question to each of
- @Melissa BearTrix #farcebookspace
- @Raroun #opensocialspace
- @Tuxi ⁂ #anonsysnet

pls would you each be kind enough to apply Michael's advice, which if i understand correctly, means:

bin/console relay add tag-aur@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-arch@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-archlinux@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-friendicahelp@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-gnucash@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-kmymoney@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-lesbian@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-linuxwomen@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-montypython@relay.fedi.buzz 

thank you all very much.

cc:
@Droppie [opensoc]
@Droppie [anonsys] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘

#friendica #fedibuzz

in reply to Melissa BearTrix

@Melissa BearTrix ah, right, well i dunno, but maybe not. if not, that would turn out to be a real bummer, especially if the other two admins are willing & able to do it. it would be an important consideration for me in my endless agonising about which instance to use as my most comfy "daily" one.

btw, assuming you don't have access, it would be a perfect, albeit unhappy, illustration of my earlier concern:

somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts


🤔🤷‍♀️

@Tuxi ⁂ @Michael 🇺🇦 @Raroun



When you have no ideas left



Rowans got a new box that you can put suggestions in... this won't end well.

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RSS polling frequency


@Friendica Support.

Anyone know how often Friendica fetches RSS feeds ? Is this frequency configurable ?

I'm seeing some big delays.

Thanks.

in reply to Peter Lord

It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.

It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.

The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.

in reply to Matthew Exon

Ah, I see, many thanks.

I just found adjustPollFrequency() in the source which adjusts the feed "rating" based on the number of recent posts.

The feed I was looking at has a rating of 8 (polling once a day) but other feeds I have lower ratings (more frequently polled). Thats consistent with what I see.

Thanks again.



Maxing out intimidation stats



Rowan puts all his eggs in one basket and by eggs we mean stats and by basket we mean intimidation.

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Satellite Crash



Is Ben in danger from the Satellites?
pubg.promo/ErangelSubzeroxVLDL…
Brace for Total Whiteout on January 7 (PC) / January 15 (Console)… and don’t worry, Subzero won’t freeze you that hard in-game.
#PUBG #ErangelSubzero #sponsored


#doDo en #tierraNietos

Tercera semana de verano 2026
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Desarme de placas solares en el techo de quincho.
Armado inicial de placas sobre un palet.
Diseño de uso de enchufes schuco para carga de 12 y 24 voltios.
9/10 y 11 de enero #ciclónExtratropical.



#Friendica just dropped an important update that pre-generates the content of channels - considering that the home feed is itself a channel (and can easily take over a minute to load sometimes) this might well make Friendica finally becomes properly usable in #SelfHosting hardware. Time to test! #Friendica
in reply to Carlos Solís

I could not see an update either on official website nor GitHub, latest release is still from 2024, or what do you mean by "update"?


Frozen Blue Zone



The Blue Zone ain't safe anymore
pubg.promo/ErangelSubzeroxVLDL…
Brace for Total Whiteout on January 7 (PC) / January 15 (Console)… and don’t worry, Subzero won’t freeze you that hard in-game.
#PUBG #ErangelSubzero #sponsored


Watching Tiktoks at work



Rowan has ZERO tolerance for being on your phone at work. If YOU are watching this at work right now - paycut.

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Ich überlege nun offiziell von Level 0 (zero) direkt auf Level 2 zu erhöhen.
Sollte ich das wirklich tun, ist es die Sache Wert?
Was meinst Du?
Auf welchem Level zockst Du gerade?

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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasenmo…


in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

@Gerhard Hallstein willst du damit RSS Feeds importieren? Wenn ja dann schau mal auf opml.sekbaer.de/ vorbei (hab da mal ein kleines Script schreiben lassen) da kannst du deine OPML Datei hochladen und die wird dann in eine CSV Datei konvertiert, die du dann herunterladen kannst. Auf Friendica gehst du dann unter Einstellungen ---> Kontakte importieren. Dort auf "Durchsuchen" klicken die csv datei auswählen und auf "Einstellungen speichern" klicken.
Du solltest dann die RSS Feeds in deinen Kontakten.
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

@OldKid ⁂ Danke schön für den Hinweis. Ich werde ihn mir mal abspeichern.
Ich nutze Deine Instanz nach wie vor als Feedreader. Doch hin und wieder "denke" ich darüber nach, das Firefox Addon Feedbro wieder zu nutzen. Und wenn ich das tun würde, würde ich irgendwann mal wieder Deine Instanz als Feedreader nutzen.


Tension in the workplace



Manager Rowan faces off with Manager Rhi once again.

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Erangel Blizzard



Our favourite map in PUBG Erangel is getting a massive transformation these holidays!
pubg.promo/ErangelSubzeroxVLDL…
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When your coworker might be a killer



Rowan's been really getting into the true crime wave and there's something off about Adam...

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I am currently trying to for the problems with git.friendi.ca that occur more and more frequently by moving this setup to a new server.
I will need a bit more time to accomplish this.

@helpers

cc @heluech@pirati.ca @heluecht @nupplaphil



@Friendica Support i really wish there was another option for having a dark theme in #Friendica. i would like having a multi-shade black / charcoal page, with lavender / violet accents, but so far have not found a way to achieve it (note, for many years i used to use the #Stylus AddOn, with which i created numerous custom themes for many sites, but a year ago i disabled it & others as part of my desire to begin minimising all non-essential AO attack surfaces). Though in many ways using #DarkReader for Friendica is quite good, overall i tend to eschew it being on for this site, coz it hides that handy temporary shading highlight of posts in a thread for which a Notification was received.

The small number of current dark themes offer me a rather unappealing colour choice.

The custom theme option initially excited me, til i realised, afaict, it is based on the Light theme, with no Dark theme option, so that all the dialogue boxes & dropdown menus remain eye-piercingly bright white, that hurts my eyes. The least-worst i could conjure was

{"nav_bg":"#54207b","nav_icon_color":"#f3d0f1","link_color":"#5b38a6","background_color":"#5b4d71","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"42"}

but as mentioned, too much blinding white remains.

inevitably then, i keep returning to the so-called Black theme, but it is... quite boring. the entire page is simply all a single "shiny" black tone, with my chosen accent relieving the monotony. compare this to the so-called Dark themes, to see the difference; they use different shades of the base colour, which is more visually appealing, creating a "panelled" effect.

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

@Droppie [opensoc] Because I wasn't satisfied with the color theme, I created a GNOME variant.
If theming weren't so complicated, I'd like to create a theme from scratch that's more dynamic for the end user.

codeberg.org/Tealk/friendica-f…

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

well well well, i have synthesised a pretty comfy workaround. the basic problem ofc remains, which is why i call this a workaround not solution.

  • my daily browser is :firefoxnightly: , hence can/does use the Mozilla-created AddOn #SideView (which tbh i always misremember as being #OpenInSidebar)
  • i have reverted my #Friendica Settings Display theme to the default Light [ow ow ouch, my poor eyes!]
  • i have re-enabled the AO #DarkReader for this site (eyes go phew!)
  • once again now, per my OP, if i access my received Friendica Notifications in the main page, Dark Reader entirely hides the momentary shading / highlighting of the applicable post... ie, most unhelpful
  • however, when viewing my account in the sidebar, via Side View, the Dark Reader AO does not work, so i see only the underlying Light theme. this is usually a large disadvantage IMO of using Side View, but in this specific scenario, it is actually handy...
  • if, hereafter, i open my account Notifications not any more in the main page, but in the sidebar, still being the Light theme means i now DO get to see that helpful momentary shading / highlighting of the applicable post
  • yes it is blinding, but less so than the main page coz its area is much smaller, plus i am only in that sidebar view for seconds, after which i revert to its default, being #TreeStyleTab.
  • so far, this new workflow seems quite good

fwiw.



follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?

@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.

i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].

of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.

however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.

using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.

i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.

over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].

please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?

in reply to Marcus

@Marcus they work but are far less convenient than a custom channel. eg, my channel "FOSS" includes hashtags #Linux, #FOSS, #Firefox, #FirefoxNightly, #Thunderbird, #Arch, #ArchLinux, & several others. To do it manually just by my saved tag search links requites the tedium of having to do all those searches individually in series, not automatically in parallel as done by the channel.



Lazy boss uses soundboard



Manager Rowan comes up with a way to manage his staff without saying a word.

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Trapped by plates in The Sims



Sam is trying to improve her cooking skills but there's something getting in the way...physically

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Hello @Raroun hope you're well. every now & then, when i have joined a different #Friendica instance in the past, i ask this same question of its Owners / Admins. always it's the same negative answer, but i live in hope!

on Masto & Sharkey instances, if the Admins are willing, it is technically possible to add FOSS emojis to the servers. consequently, on many of my instances i've been able to include these in various posts when applicable:

:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp: :firefox_nightly: :firefox: :thunderbird: :fedora: :opensuse: :debian:

so... is there yet any way that such emojis can be added to your instance, please?

cc: @Friendica Support

#FOSSemojis

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

@Raroun

Here's a screenshot of what i now see, in draft / preview format, when i paste my original emoji-suite again, since @Raroun kindly enabled / added

the standard "Smiley Pack Addon" for Friendica


so i can see that yes, some of my desired #FOSSemojis now work, but sadly still most don't. i shall be most interested to see what might happen after this weekend. 🤞 🤞 🤞

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

FYI but every one of those ​:customemojis:​ has to have the actual PNG or GIF uploaded to YOUR instance for any of them to work.

Until then they're simply not going to work no matter what you do.

They are not universal. Each custom emoji is unique to the instance that has it.

My instance might have :heart: look like this: ♥️But on another instance :heart: might look like this: 💓

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

@Droppie [opensoc]
You can view the available custom emojis via the link. This will always be a limited selection, in addition to the classic emojis.

@Raroun

in reply to Matthias

@Matthias sorry for my delayed reply. the large majority of my regular interlocutors are on various Masto instances, with some on Sharkey, so for me to derive full benefit of my desired #FOSSemojis in my Friendica instance/s, ideally each of the emoji codes needs to be the same across those platforms. doing a comparison of

has now shown me that whereas happily some are the same, eg:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird:

unfortunately other important ones are different, eg:
:firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly:
:fedora: vs :linuxfedora:
:opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse:
:debian: vs :linuxdebian:
:firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly:
:fedora: vs :linuxfedora:
:opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse:
:debian: vs :linuxdebian:

and a few are absent in Friendica, though present in the others, eg:
:plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp:

so, if i lump the "missings" with the "differents", the total number exceeds the "goods". it seems therefore that my desire to have comparable cross-platform FOSSemojis (without me needing to stop to think, each time i go to use some of them, "oh, are these good ones or bad ones?") is just not possible, so i need to abandon the idea.

oh well, thank you all for your help, anyway. 😢

@Raroun



this is an experimental quote-share from my #Friendica #newsbots #Circle, whose default Permissions disallow anyone outside this Circle being able to see or access it. i have now done a one-off flip of the Permissions, just for this individual post, to Public, so...

Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

Unofficial SBS News Bot - 2025-12-11 20:24:04 GMT

Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year. Here's who's pictured sbs.com.au/news/article/time-m… #World


@Friendica Support hello, may i pls get some help on this query about #Circles ?

i have sub-divided my list of follows & followers into several Circles. one of these is for all my followed #newsbots. i have found to my chagrin that a basic design feature of #Friendica is working against me here. atm, if i read a particular newsbot's post whilst in my "Bot" circle, then decide to quote-boost / quote-share it, with some pertinent commentary by me, it's a complete waste of time... the default Friendica permissions / visibility feature makes my resultant post "Locked", ie visible only to members of this circle, ie, a heap of bots. no actual human will ever see it.

[how] can i avoid this? how can i manually allow any/all posts / replies / boosts / shares that i do from this circle, be visible across all the fediverse?

when circles comprise actual human accounts, this baked-in Friendica privacy concept makes sense. it is however actively unhelpful, indeed plain obstructive, for the specific case of a bot circle.

thx.

🤞 🤞 🤞

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

I for one don't understand how the circles feature is supposed to work. I don't think it existed when I started using Friendica years ago, this was one of my goals for the holidays was to play with it more and update the documentation.
in reply to Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)

Circles existed even before I started to use Friendica. But then they had been called "groups". We renamed them some time ago to not get confused with the groups that had been called "forums" back then.
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

As you asked than, before changing the nomen clature @Michael 🇺🇦, using it now it seems that that was actually a good choice.
👍

@Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)

in reply to Droppie [opensoc]

When you are in a circle, then the default permission for the post is set to that circle. Means: You have to change the posting permissions before posting to avoid this behaviour.
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 oh Michael, i feel so stupid! I did already look there before posting, but somehow entirely failed to notice i could manually change it. i've now done a test

friendica.opensocial.space/dis…

& it seems to have worked [the icon is now the globe, not the padlock], so... yay!

thank you, but i apologise for wasting your time 🥺


this is an experimental quote-share from my #Friendica #newsbots #Circle, whose default Permissions disallow anyone outside this Circle being able to see or access it. i have now done a one-off flip of the Permissions, just for this individual post, to Public, so...
Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

Unofficial SBS News Bot - 2025-12-11 20:24:04 GMT

Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year. Here's who's pictured sbs.com.au/news/article/time-m… #World





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