Welcome to Friendica.World !
I had set this server up a while ago, but with the recent FB drama, we see a lot of new users registering. Almost a thousand, and counting!
Let's first introduce myself, I am Ruud, a database admin from The Netherlands who as a hobby hosts Fediverse instances like mastodon.world, lemmy.world and a lot of others.
Together with @stux⚡ I founded a non-profit foundation for owning our instances: fedihosting.foundation.
The Friendica.World server isn't 100% ready, there's still some tweaking and polishing needed. For example we need to add a ToS and rules. They will be the same as on mastodon.world/about
Also, we are still trying to resolve an issue where the jobs aren't being processed as quickly as we would like. We've opened an issue with the Friendica developers: github.com/friendica/friendica…
Currently there are 612000 jobs still pending and daily this gets down by 39000 jobs, so after 16 days it should be at 0 and everything should be instantaneous. We're hoping we can somehow speed this up.
Result of this issue is that things are lagging behind, like federation to other servers (mastodon, other friendica's etc), notifications etc.
We hope you'll bear with us until this is fixed.
Meanwhile, check out a set of tutorial videos: peertube.stream/w/7cntKfMgHqX9…
If you have any questions or remarks, message me, or mail info@friendica.world.
If you would like to support us and help covering the hosting costs, you can do so here: ko-fi.com/fhfworld
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Bluesky addon disabled temporarily
Due to the ongoing backlog in worker jobs, I've disabled the Bluesky addon. This generated a lot of extra jobs, and I want to focus on getting the queue empty and the worker issue fixed before enabling it again.
Sorry about that.
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I gave Friendica a FB facelift with a user stylesheet in my browser. So now, at least for me, it has a more modern, familiar appearance.
Here's an example of the Home Feed:
And an example of the Global Feed:
This is pretty easy to do if you're using Firefox and a user content stylesheet. But you could also use the Stylus Add-On to do it. There is also a Stylus Extension for Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers).
For Safari there is the Userscripts Extension in the App Store, which can also do user stylesheets.
Friendica needs Settings > Display > Theme set to the "Frio" theme.
Under Settings > Display > Theme Customization it needs to either be set to "Lite" or to "Custom" ("Dark" nor "Black" will not work).
If you set it to "Custom" you need to "Save" it first to see the options. Then you can copy+paste my "schemestring" into the box and "Save" again. Even if you don't apply the user styles that will get you a newer FB color scheme.
I haven't looked at any of the documentation for Friendica themes. I have no idea if my stylesheet could be adapted to a "Frio" variant/scheme. If anyone else who knows more about it wants to try feel free to do so. But even if it can the server admin would still have to make it an option. This way you can apply it yourself.
I'll try to add links to the stylesheet files in the comments, though this is my first time using Friendica's file attachment features.
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Looks good. 👍🏼
Will try that later.
Please share your schemestring so I can try it. Got the rest figured out.
{"nav_bg":"#ffffff","nav_icon_color":"#606637","link_color":"#0866ff","background_color":"#f2f4f7","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"100"}
peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY…
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Some issues still with Friendica.World
There still are some issues with Friendica.World (but we're working on it...)
First and foremost, the worker, which is executing the jobs (which do everything ) can't keep up. This is being addressed in github.com/friendica/friendica…
Then, image uploads don't work for large images (over 5MB?), while the settings have a max of 200MB defined (and php.ini has 500MB)
Lastly (for now), the backup locks the database. We need to test to use options to skip the locking of tables.
If there are any other issues you notice, let us know!
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@ruud Is Friendica set to the 200MB limit? When trying to upload an image in the image section of my profile, I get an error message shown, where 'nginx ' is printed below the actual image error message. This doesn't look like a PHP error message to me. I haven't ever used nginx, though.
A quick search reveals that nginx has a client_max_body_size parameter to limit the size of uploads. The default is 1MB. Could this be the problem?
I have posted this with Tusky.
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@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.4.0-beta04 available for testing!
Changelog:
- fix for a bug after adding/removing a post to favorites which led to lose custom emojis;
- fix spacing between post and reply placeholders when using the new Card layout;
- fix a minor accessibility issue with the new audio player;
- fix crash when rendering some HTML posts;
- fix "floating" (overlapping) images for embedded contents;
- localization updates (included support for upcoming Romanian translation);
- library updates.
I think we are almost ready for the 0.4 version. In the meantime I've submitted both Raccoon apps to Google Play so I may be needed some volunteers to participate in the closed testing program before the apps can be made available to the general public.
Happy New Year and remember to #livefasteatrash
#procyonproject #raccoonforfriendica #fediverseapp #friendica #friendicadev #mobileapp #mobiledev #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #sideproject
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New server
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Sorry for the downtime and delays last few days
I am still trying to get the jobs being processed faster. It looks like something is wrong with that, I've opened a ticket at Friendica's Github about it (github.com/friendica/friendica…)
While trying to troubleshoot/tune, I managed to get the site broken a few times.
Also, our hoster Hetzner had an issue today causing the server to go down.
Hopefully the downtime will be minimal from now on. Also I scaled up the server significantly. Now we just need a solution for the worker not working as it should (see beforementioned issue on Github) I hope you'll be patient
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Worker issue causing Friendica.World to lag behind
I'll create a ticket with Friendica and try to resolve this ASAP.
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Trying to tune Friendica...
So far just managed to break the site...
Blocking
Hmm how can I block an account so I don't see their posts in the local and global timelines anymore?
Some people post stuff that I don't agree with, but as long as it's not against the server rules (ahh, I still need to write those down...) I won't delete the account from the server.
Bluesky addon
I have enabled the Bluesky addon on Friendica.world
I have tested (connected this account to @friendicaworld.bsky.social) which seems to work. My posts arrive on Bluesky.
So far, I have 2 findings:
- I couldn't yet get it to work when using a self-hosted PDS (I host bskysocial.world)
- I also couldn't get the friendica.world domain to work yet.
I see that it tries to go to ruud.friendica.world/.well-kno… so I enabled wildcard subdomains. That worked, but now there's no content in .well-known/atproto-did so I need to figure out how to get that there.
To be continued...
Friendica.World performance
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I saw that the Friendica instance was getting a backlog of worker jobs. So I have tuned the worker settings, now it seems to be catching up. It's at job 8730 of 23500.
I might tune it some more later, and scale up the server if needed.
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This is a test post with a picture of our puppy. I don't see an option to provide alt-text for the image though?
but the editor does have markdown!
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@Ruud This is what I learned in three years of Friendica. I hope it can be useful to you
(this also needs to be translated from Italian)
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E-mail and backups
Important things that need to be configured are e-mail and backups.
E-mail configured
E-mail is configured. (Hmm, can I require e-mail validations upon signup??)
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This one will stay.
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OK, so I installed Friendica
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