Just sharing more things as I learn.

Mastodon and other projects dominate the Fediverse scene

But, Friendica doesn't miss out on any of the action!

If you started elsewhere on the Fediverse, it’s not very clear if Friendica is able to copy or move your posts over for you.

But, Friendica can help transfer your follows over.

If you head over to Settings > Import Contacts, you’ll see the Import contacts page.

As of this writing, the CSV file option did not work as expected. But, entering a proper account name in the form box did start the import process.

You will be asked to keep the page open while Friendica processes each follow. You’ll be given a progress note (x/total follows).

Now there may be odd times when Friendica “times out” and does not refresh the page at all. Simply reload the Import contacts page, and the process resumes.

If you have contacts that no longer exist, or have some kind of issue, you’ll see something like below.

Just go to your address bar, which will show you the counter for where you are on your contacts list. In this example, Friendica hit the error at “821”. You just replace “821” with the next on the list, “822”, and hit enter.

Friendica will resume the process until you reach the end.

You’re done! Your contacts will now be added to your Friendica account. You are free to organize your friends according to your “Circles” (Friendica) or “Lists” (Mastodon/Misskey)

Hey all, just another newbie post about Friendica here as I'm trying to learn the ropes.

I notice that some times when I follow someone - be it an account on Mastodon, Sharkey, etc - their Network Posts are blank until they post something.

So I went searching for a setting or some kind of toggle to perhaps change that to enable me to see a user's existing posts prior to the point when I followed them.

I could only find the following link below which mentioned the process.

Is there a toggle somewhere that would let people see older posts from users on Fediverse?

github.com/friendica/friendica…

Currently it works like this: to see a post or comment your server has to receive it first. This happens if any of these are true:

1you or someone else on your server is subscribed to the author of this item
2 the item is reshared by someone you or someone else on your server is subscribed to
3 you interacted with child item (e.g. reply to the post) which causes parent items to get fetched

If you just stumbled upon someone's post and there are some comments from people who never made it to your server you won't see them - and I think this is the case for any Fedi platform, not just Friendica. This is also the reason you sometimes don't see full "like" counts for others' posts.