Groups?
I am new to Friendica and want to learn to create groups. The Friendica wiki tells me:
To create a group, visit your Friendica “Contacts” page and select “Create a new group”.
But there is no such button. I just don't see it. There is only one YouTuber showing how to do it, but his cursor-clicks are off-screen, and the audio is terrible, so it's impossible to make sense of.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems? How can we improve our Friendica skills?
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@Erik van Schaaik Not only a new profile. An entire new account.
On Friendica, creating a new group as in a Facebook group means registering a whole new login.
If you want to create such a group, I'd recommend you to do that on another Friendica node than the one you're on right now. For if you had a group on the node that you're on right now, and you wanted to moderate the group, you'd have to
- log out of your personal account
- log into the group account
- moderate
- log out of the group account
- log back into your personal account
But if your group is on another node, you can stay logged into both at the same time.
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Thanks for your much-needed clear explanation of how Friendica groups work.
At the moment, it still seems a bit too cumbersome to me. But I might give it a try when I have more time.
In the meantime, I’m also looking into alternatives like Revolt, where you can create dedicated chat groups: rvlt.gg/qndZXnGD
Other ideas and alternatives on 'groups' are always very welcome. 😀
I'll have a look at Hubzilla and Streams and see where it gets me.
Thanks again @Jupiter Rowland
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I'm not good with terminology, so I assume node is the same as server in this case.
You and I are on Friendica, which is part of the Fediverse, and we're both using the server friendica.world.
Wikipedia has an image illustrating how the Fediverse is connected:
Here's the list of public Friendica servers: dir.friendica.social/servers
If you were to look for another server for e.g. a group circle account, you'd choose one of the not-friendica.world ones. 😅
As far as u u can see you don’t need a new login, but a sub account to which you can switch anytime. You can have as many as you like, and they can be anything.
I would even say that Hubzilla’s channels are the same as these sub accounts.
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1. Go to “Accounts” in the menu that pops up when you click on your profile picture.
2. Then click on “Manage accounts”. You should end up on youserver.url/settings/delegat…
3. Click “Register an additional account”
4. Fill in the name, nickname, and confirm with your main account password.
Voilà – you have a new account as a sub.account to which you can switch to at any time using the accounts menu.
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I'm sorry, @Daniel de Kay , but I don't see an "Accounts" option in the menu that appears when I click my profile picture. Additionally, the URL that's supposed to show where I would end up isn't working.
I must go do some urban painting now (lovely analogue paper and paints!) but I will not give up, and I'll be looking back into this soon.
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I have managed to create a sub account. I believe this account is the equivalent of a group, am I right? Or should I proceed to create a group inside this sub account?
So, if I've understood it correctly,
a circle-group is basically one "person" that acts as a hub that everyone "in" the "group" shares messages with
so when one tags this "person" (by adding an exclamation mark — ! — in front of the "person"'s name), the "person" then forwards that message to everyone else that it has in "its contacts".
@jalanchee @jupiter_rowland @phle
It’s exactly the analogy used to explain federation. ActivityPub an actor sends notifications to all the inboxes of their followers. Just like email.
And the group is then a mailing list, makes sense.
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in reply to Erik van Schaaik • •Now, I was hoping to add some categories to my group (sub-account)—like in Discord, a list of topics of interest. For example: a culinary group could have the following categories: cooking, baking, sautéing, fermenting, vegetarian, fish.
It seems this is not possible. 'Circles' and 'Channels' aren’t suited for this, right..?
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