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Some Friendica advice please


So, as I've already announced, or rather another me announced, we're planning on shutting down my Mastodon instance in the future, and switching to a hosted #Friencica and prolly merging this account in there too.

I do have some questions about how to set up accounts, my Mastodon currently has five:
admin
personal, because you never run as root
taurnation, art & link sharing group
recalls, link sharing group
Xnews, stuff related to my work

So, the question are

  1. How to do this on Friendica, is there any difference between additional account and creating a new user?
  2. How exactly does a community blog work, as taurnation and recalls might be better arranged as such, that way others can contribute.
  3. How can one theme, is that server side only? And how does one create a theme?

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Nearly done here


Ok, now that Venera is up, I'm getting this place fully set up. Contacts are imported, description updated, page customized now that customization works including custom fields on my profile, and password updated.

Hmm, for the #Linux users out there, how do I do a custom keyboard layout? I did find some instructions online, which worked great... Until I updated. Clearly I need something permanent, maybe copy the existing layout, rename, edit and insert it back into the keyboard layouts folder? Or will that get erased with an update?

And what does that have to do with this place? Well, as my desc says, I want to bring back the þ, and will once I move it to an easier place to type it.

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Ok, so things are going well enough, I'm missing a ton of friends as I have no access to my old Friendica friends list, though I have copied over some from my Mastodon that look better on Friendica such as most of the artists I follow.

Really the only problems over here that the #admin could fix would be theming, I can't set up custom colours or anything else, when you choose custom from the drop down menu, nothing happens.
Also password changing doesn't seem to work... Well, it might as I'm not sure what my password is, I tried to change it, got an error, but when I tried to log in from my phone later, the password in my password manager, the original assigned one, doesn't work any more, so no idea what's going on with that.
There's a little odd behavior when adding friends, on Venera when I searched for one, the left column would have an add button and the body would have the request button, here you only get the body. Also RSS behaves weird, they throw back an error, but work any how in most cases, but some get a complete failure, like fall out of #Friendica level error.

I guess this place'll do fine since those are relatively minor problems, we'll see what happens as I add more RSS feeds, though the work I have to do to sort and set the update frequency is annoying, and I'm apt to leave more of a load on the server than I want to.