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Just trying out this application for the first time.


It's the middle of January. Why do I keep seeing posts related to Christmas? It's not a bad thing, just odd.


Well here I am.


I've been meaning to try out Friendica for a while now. I'm very interested in moving on from Meta and finding ways to bring my friends along. One platform may not do it so I'm trying a few out. Already have Mastodon and Pixelfed, maybe one of these will attract some of my friends and we can all enjoy the Fediverse together!
in reply to Wade Stewart

One big stumbling block for many of my friends is going to be the lack of an iOS app. I tried a few but had no luck. The homepage mentions no compatible apps as yet.
in reply to Wade Stewart

Ah, that will be a problem. I hadn't realised. Thanks for the heads up.


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in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Okay. I was able to do it. But honestly, it's incredibly difficult and time-consuming! There is some kind of dialogue that I must get into, and I must do it exactly right or it won't work. Whever happened to just hitting a link and being placed in a normal edit box! I do this so rarely from the main site that I'm sure I will forget again. Seriously, can someone please fix this?


Bandidos


La segunda temporada de #Bandidos está por llegar a #Netflix Estos ladrones tendrán que encontrar la joya más hermosa
#xarliclub #movie #movies #cine #cinema #film #films #peli #pelis #pelicula #peliculas #tv #cinemastodon #filmsky 🎬 #netflixseries
xarli.club/2025/01/bandidos.ht…


Ways to Make Unique Fantasy Pubs and Inns




Hello, everyone 👋


This is my first time posting to friendica!

For a little about me, I am a fantasy writer, artist, and history nerd. My posts will likely end up being somewhere between those topics.

Here is an example of a drawing of one of my characters.

I do struggle with a chronic illness so I might not be able to post regularly, but I look forward to chatting on here!

in reply to Briar Crawford

Hi Briar. I just joined the platform too. I love the art, it's incredibly dynamic. I play live action roleplaying games, and love at reflects the high medieval fantasy aesthetic. Keep them coming!
in reply to Steve Curry

Thanks so much! I personally don't play LARP(I am way too shy for that) but I've heard its a great community and lots of fun




First post


First test post to DRS Social. Let me know if you get this far and see this.


Chris



No, FEMA isn’t giving California wildfire victims only $770


Here is a summary of the situation at Rumor Guard.


Introduction


Hi. I'm new here. I'm a writer, political activist, and educator. I'm a #DFL officer (#Democrat) in Minnesota, and an Indivisible co-leader in a couple of #Indivisible groups. I tutor students in #SAT and #ACT prep, and select areas of science. I have a novel out there somewhere (In Search of Sungudogo), and I'm working on others.

My substack is Auspicious Subtext auspicioussubtext.substack.com…

#Introduction

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in reply to ND Evans

It's not broken, it's just realllly slow!
Managed to at least get it to have the queue getting smaller, but it will still take 16 days before it is caught up (after that everything should be on Mastodon immediately)

But I'm still hoping we can speed this up..







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in reply to Kristi H.

@kmh Excellent! Just a tip: Friendica allows code formatting, which makes readability better, while also escaping the code (depending on markup language, some sequences or characters, such as asterisk and underline, could accidentally be parsed as bold/italic).

I don't fully remember which one is the valid syntax for the web version, I guess it's the markdown one (I'm using an Android app to access Friendica, and the app allows me to set either bbcode, html or markdown):

Bbcode: [ code ]your code[ /code ] (remove the spaces)
Html: < code >your code< /code > (remove the spaces)
Markdown: three grave accents (`) in a single line, then the code, then another single line with three grave accents.

Example:

html, body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 100%;
}

Becomes:
html, body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 100%;
}

Hope this helps!

in reply to Daemon Silverstein

Thanks! I put the entire thing inside of [pre]...[/pre] but somehow I scrolled right past the "code blocks" part of the Friendica BBCode reference.



Tap tap tap


Testing testing, this thing working? Coming to Friendica from that other blue book site, already on Mastodon, I'm a big fan of the Fediverse and ActivityPub protocol. Let's see if I can get this thing going, gonna take some time but gonna give it a shot.
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in reply to Kai Chang 張文愷

Welcome to your new home! Please bring your friends and family on-board.
in reply to Sunshine

Thanks! Once I get comfortably set up, I'll start proselytizing!


I’m going to try a cooking experiment now!


Everyone in my household fell madly in love with a type of seed cracker. I know, it doesn’t sound very exciting, but maybe you just haven’t had these crackers? Anyway, they are $7-9 dollars a box, which is highway robbery! So I decided to buy the ingredients to make them myself. The first problem is that the ingredients were, in fact, very expensive! Maybe there’s a reason they charge so much. I shall attempt to make them and report back later.
in reply to Julie

I don’t see where to add alt text. So, this is a photo of a baking sheet covered in white parchment paper and a batter consisting mostly of seeds.
in reply to Julie

I believe you add "a photo of a baking sheet covered in white parchment paper and a batter consisting mostly of seeds.[/img]" at the end of the image url.

Source

in reply to Sunshine

@Sunshine @Julie It's [img=url-to-image]this is a photo of a baking sheet covered in white parchment paper and a batter consisting mostly of seeds[/img]. If you uploaded the image directly to the server, just type your alt before [/img].

Or upload the picture separately and add a description to it in Photos.



Requiem for a College - A Foggy Day at SJC - 2017






David Lynch


... has died. His darkest moment, but only barely.


A Sad Day


We lost one of the realest today,

RIP David Lynch

You left a weird mark on so many of us, and we can never repay you.

"Fix your hearts or die."



Alternative to the Inaugural boycott


Maybe stop virtue signalling about not watching the inaugural. Maybe it's true that we lost cuz we abandoned certain spaces. Maybe Thing 1 on Day 1 shouldn't be to proudly continue to do that.

Let's all go to the nearest sports bar, have some chicken wings and a beer, and take it all in there.

in reply to greg_laden

@greg_laden Totally agree. I think these are the 1st places that we need to occupy in order to get rid of the looming threat of dictatorship. Over the last decade, we've been slowly but surely getting ourselves locked inside our digital lives, abandoning the outside, in the pursuit for a better, perfect place - the way we liked that place. Now the bill is coming and it's not looking too good.


"Linux Mint 22.1 Released"


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#Odysee - odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0

#Rumble - rumble.com/c/SwitchedToLinux

#Bitchute - bitchute.com/channel/uf9hzD216…

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«Posts may contain hashtags as content may pertain to many distributions and/or related material/topics. Posts may be reposted, boosted, shared, etc. by bots and/or other accounts and are done so at the discretion of the bots/accounts that perform those actions. This account is not responsible for the action(s) of those bots and/or accounts. Therefore, Offended Discretion is advised.»

#SwitchedToLinux #Linux #Windows #Mac #AltTech #FOSS #YouTube #Odysee #Rumble #BitChute #Locals #DLive #Twitch #FactCheckTrue #Fediverse #Fedi22 #Fedi23 #Fedi24 #LinuxMint @LinuxMint

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Biden's Farewell Message


President Joe Biden's farewell message is reminiscent of Eisenhower's, in that both warned about a takeover of government by a small cabal of self-interested billionaires.

However, like most things Biden...and I love the guy...he's a little late with his message.

The astounding speed with which the billionaire tech bros and MAGA moron zealots have inserted themselves into the decision-making of the incoming administration is one big difference.

Another difference is that this newer group is into "breaking things," not making things -- except massive profits for themselves.

A third difference is that this group is taking a "whole of government" approach, not just focusing on one department's budget.

Finally, this bunch is introducing us to something worse than an oligarchy. They are bringing us a kakistocracy, rule by the incompetent.

We are in for a rough ride. You can be sure that America's rivals for world leadership will be happy to exploit these transactional idiots. Buckle up. Such a shame. We are becoming Russia, maybe just Hungary, but with the Three Stooges in charge. Sad.



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I am vaguely aware of something called Lemmy, which is similar to Reddit, including the inability to delete posts. Why, I don't know. Anyway, I read that it can interact with Friendica. But I'm confused regarding finding forums, joining them, and posting to them. Usually, I go to a website, enter friendica.world, am taken to my homepage, and then authorise the connection. But this seems different. Can anyone help me? Also, I primarily use Tweesecake, not the main site, so I have no idea what the bit about widgets means.

wiki.friendi.ca/docs/post_to_l…

#blind #fediverse #forums #Friendica #Lemmy #posting #Tweesecake

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

@Georgiana Brummell I think you can delete your content from there too. Yes, Lemmy is like a federated version of Reddit (just like Friendica is to Facebook).

Forum


The language in the documentation is a bit old, now the forums have been renamed to groups, but they're the same thing.

Disregarding the language used, you can go to lemmyverse.net/ and then to the communities tab. From there, click or copy the address for any community that you're looking for - the one starting with an exclamation mark - and paste it in the search bar. Once you find it, follow it like you would follow any other person.

To post in a group, simply create a normal post and tag the group with either ! or @.

Keep in mind that for Lemmy you have to add a title to your post, otherwise it will use the first 200 characters in the first line of it as the title and it might look off.

Btw, we also have some groups in Friendica. They're less active than the Lemmy communities, but they're there. And you don't have to add a title to any post to them.

dir.friendica.social/group

in reply to Georgiana Brummell