Some questions regarding friendica
!Friendica Support
I'm new on friendica, and these are some questions/doubts I have regarding this platform:
- There is a setting called "Allow your profile to be searchable globally?" and the text below says this:
Activate this setting if you want others to easily find and follow you. Your profile will be searchable on remote systems. This setting also determines whether Friendica will inform search engines that your profile should be indexed or not. Your profile will also be published in the global friendica directories (e.g. dir.friendica.social).
What if I want other fediverse users to easily find me, but don't want to be indexed by search engines ? 🤔 - Why don't friendica show follower notifications in the webapp ?
This is a soapbox account, meaning I don't have to manually approve contact requests, kinda like how mastodon is by default. But I'd still like to get a notification when someone new follows me, its a great way of finding new people. Interestingly, I could see these follower notifications when I logged into the tusky client, although I couldn't see any other notifications (like when someone tags me or likes my post) on tusky, weird...... - It takes a lot longer for posts & replies to appear on friendica. why does posts appear quicker on mastodon instances compared to friendica ? Is there anything we can do to improve the situation so that posts federate quickly ?
- This is from the friendica documentation here:
If you mistakenly created a message and wish you could take it back, the best you can do is to delete it. We will send out a delete notification to everybody who received the message - and this should wipe out the message with the same speed it was initially propagated. In most cases it will be completely wiped from the Internet - in under a minute. Again, this applies to Friendica networks. Once a message spreads to other networks, it may not be removed quickly and in some cases it may not be removed at all.
Which are these "other networks" and why does it make it difficult to delete user posts ? Mastodon also allows users to delete their posts, does the same problem happen on mastodon too ? I know friendica federates with more platforms than mastodon, are there any platforms that don't allow post deletion at all ? Also I wonder if a similar problem happens when editing posts too ?
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Tio
Unknown parent • •He is on our node and I have 20 parallel workers. Should I increase that? We have plenty of resources to spare on our server.
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Rokosun
Unknown parent • •Thanks for your reply, this clears most of my doubts regarding friendica.
Is this something an individual user can do ? Or do I need the help of admins to do this ? I'll tag @Tio here 'cause he's my admin. If I recall correctly, I think mastodon allows every user to individually opt out of search engine indexing.
... Show more...OK I'll look into that :)
Thanks for your reply, this clears most of my doubts regarding friendica.
Is this something an individual user can do ? Or do I need the help of admins to do this ? I'll tag @Tio here 'cause he's my admin. If I recall correctly, I think mastodon allows every user to individually opt out of search engine indexing.
OK I'll look into that :)
OK, maybe my admin can help with this. Could you give some tips for @Tio to improve federation on his instance.
Good to know that, if I can delete my posts on most platforms except a few ones like OStatus that don't support it, then that's good enough for me.
I actually tried editing a previous post of mine that I've boosted using my mastodon account. I just added a few dots at the end of my post for testing this. Then I checked to see if the post is changed on mastodon too, and it actually did change on mastodon ! So even though mastodon currently do not support editing posts, posts edited on friendica is getting reflected on mastodon too :)
However I don't know if these edits would be supported on other platforms like pleroma and such, or how long it takes for these edits to federate properly.
Tio
Unknown parent • •An Infinitude of Tortoises
Unknown parent • • •A related question: my account has "Allow your profile to be searchable globally?" enabled, but it seems only search.noc.social is indexing (and only annually, I gather) my Profile page -- or at least it's invisible to such major search engines as Google, DDG, etc. (This is perhaps unsurprising given that a robots.txt is indeed present at the root of libranet.de.) So, can anything be done to make my Profile visible -- directly, not merely via search.noc.social -- to the search engines? That's what I had supposed the above-mentioned setting was designed to do.
Tio
in reply to Rokosun • •Probably this is something I could do but I'd like not to, since it affects all accounts.
Rokosun
in reply to Tio • •Tio
in reply to Rokosun • •Tio
Unknown parent • •Rokosun
in reply to Tio • •I have created a new feature request for it here.
I also looked into the follower notification issue on soapbox accounts and found that there is already an open issue about it, so I just left a comment there