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111 lines
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Making Friends
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* [Home](help)
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Friendship in Friendica can sometimes take on different meaning.
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But let's keep it simple; you want to be friends with somebody.
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How do you do it?
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The Directories
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Friendica has two different kinds of "address book".
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The directory of the Friendica server you are registered on and a global directory to which your and other Friendica servers submit account information.
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The first thing you can do is look at the **Directory**.
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The directory is split up into two parts.
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If you click the directory button, you will be presented with a list of all members (who chose to be listed) on your server.
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You'll also see a link to a **Global Directory**.
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There are several global directories across the globe that regularly exchange information with each other.
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The specific global directory that you see usually depends on where your server is located.
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If you click through to the global directory, you will be presented with a list of everybody who choses to be listed across all instances of Friendica.
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You will also see a "Show Community Forums" link, which will direct you to Circles, Forums and Fanpages.
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You connect to people, groups and forums in the same way, except groups and forums will automatically accept your introduction request, whereas a human will approve you manually.
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Connect to other Friendica users
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Visit their profile.
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Just beneath their profile picture will be the word 'Connect' (we're assuming this is an English language profile).
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Click that 'Connect' button and it will take you to a 'Connect' form.
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The form is going to ask you for your Identity Address.
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This is necessary so that this person's website can find yours.
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If your Friendica site is called "demo.friendica.com" and your username/nickname on that site is "bob", you would enter "bob@demo.friendica.com" in this form.
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Notice this looks just like an email address.
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It's meant to be that way.
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It's easy for people to remember.
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You *could* also put in the URL of your "home" page, such as "http://demo.friendica.com/profile/bob" instead of the email-style address.
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When you've submitted the connection page, it will take you back to your own site where you must then login (if necessary) and verify the connection request on *your* site.
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Once you've done this, the two websites can communicate with each other to complete the process (after your new friend has approved the request).
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If you already know somebody's Identity Address, you can enter it in the "connect" box on your "Contacts" page.
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This will take you through a similar process.
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Connect to users of alternate networks
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### Across the Federation and Fediverse
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You can also use your Identity Address or other people's Identity Addresses to become friends across the so-called Federation/Fediverse of open source social media.
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Currently, Friendica supports connections with people on diaspora*, Red, Hubzilla, GNU Social, StatusNet, Mastodon, Pleroma, socialhome, and ganggo platforms.
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If you know (for instance) "alice" on gnusocial.net (a GNU Social site) you could put alice@gnusocial.net into your Contact page and become friends across networks.
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Likewise you can put in the URL to Alice's gnusocial.net page, if you wish.
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Note: Some versions of GNU Social software may require the full URL to your profile and may not work with the identity address.
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People on these networks can also initiate contact with you, if they know your contact details.
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### Other social media
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If you server provides this functionality, you can also connect with people one
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Twitter or important feeds from Tumblr, Wordpress, and many more.
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To connect, enter their contact details in the "connect" box on your "Contacts" page.
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### Email
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If you have supplied your mailbox connection information on your Settings page, you can enter the email address of anybody that has sent you a message recently and have their email messages show up in your social stream.
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You can also reply to them from within Friendica.
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Create an email contact with for example Alice on Gmail, enter her email in following format "mailto:alice@gmail.no".
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In order to avoid abuse or spam, you must have an email from Alice with the correct email address in your email inbox.
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Subscribing to mailing lists is done in the same way, but without the use of the "mailto:" prefix.
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To subscribe to a mailing list, enter the email in following example format "mailing-list@list-server.net".
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### Syndication feeds
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You can "follow" almost anybody or any website that produces a syndication feed (RSS/Atom,etc.).
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If we can find an information stream and a name to attach to the contact, we'll try to connect with them.
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Notification
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When somebody requests friendship you will receive a notification.
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You will usually need to approve this before the friendship is complete.
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Approval
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Some networks allow people to send you messages without being friends and without your approval.
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Friendica does not allow this by default, as it would open a gateway for spam.
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Unilateral or bilateral friendships
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When you receive a friendship notification from another Friendica member, you will have the option of allowing them as a "Follower" or as a "Friend".
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If they are a follower, they can see what you have to say, including private communications that you send to them, but not vice versa.
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As a friend, you can both communicate with each other.
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diaspora* uses a different terminology, and you are given the option of allowing them to "share with you", or being full friends.
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Ignoring, blocking and deleting contacts
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Once you have become friends, if you find the person constantly sends you spam or worthless information, you can "Ignore" them - without breaking off the friendship or even alerting them to the fact that you aren't interested in anything they are saying.
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In many ways they are like a "follower" - but they don't know this.
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They think they are a friend.
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You can also "block" a person.
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This completely blocks communications with that person.
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They may still be able to see your public posts, as can anybody in the world, but they cannot communicate with you directly.
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You can also delete a friend no matter what the friendship status - which completely removes everything relating to that person from your website.
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