friendica-github/FEDERATION.md

Federation

Supported federation protocols and standards

• ActivityPub (Server-to-Server, Server-to-Client)
• WebFinger
• Http Signatures
• NodeInfo
• Diaspora* Protocol
• DFRN

Supported FEPs

• FEP-f1d5: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software
• FEP-1b12: Group federation - basics for federation with lemmy, kbin
• FEP-2677: Identifying the Application Actor
• FEP-e232: Object Links
• FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol - basics to log in to Hubzilla
• FEP-67ff: FEDERATION.md

ActivityPub

• We send a follow activity for the id of a received root post. This is meant as a request to be included in the collection of receivers for this specific post.

Diaspora protocol

Friendica supports most entities of the Diaspora protocol except polls.

Additional documentation

• Documentation is available at every Friendica node at /help and in the project repository friendica/doc (links work on the nodes documentation).