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Friends

A self-hosted social reader for WordPress: follow people via RSS and ActivityPub, with multiple themes and a plugin ecosystem.

decentralized friends own-your-data rss social network
35.8 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Open evidence

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78 / 108 rows with source links

72.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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30 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
1.6K 1.8K -13.1% 12.2K

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.83
Fatal error when adding new friend

Fatal error when adding new friend: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Fatal error when adding new friend Hi!
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.68
Friends critical error

The Friends plugin caused a WordPress critical error during a scheduled cleanup task.

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An error of type E_ERROR was caused
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
ActivityPub user does not see follow?

ActivityPub user does not see follow?: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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I’ve enabled the Friends plugin on a blog I’m using for testing setting up ActivityPub .
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Direct Messages via ActivityPub?

Direct Messages via ActivityPub?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Is it possible to send direct messages via ActivityPub?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
User mention

User mention: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Thanks for reporting!
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Attempting to follow BridgyFed (the Fediverse-BlueSky bridge) fails

Attempting to follow BridgyFed (the Fediverse-BlueSky bridge) fails: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Installed the Friends plugin to my selfhosted latest WordPress instance running ActivityPub at https://solarbird.net .
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Will external friend publishes “publish” posts?

Will external friend publishes “publish” posts?: users show pricing, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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If so, will this notify users of my email subscription plugin?
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
“Liking” other peoples posts

“Liking” other peoples posts: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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So it is actually possible to “like” other peoples posts?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.76
Is the plugin working fine for anybody?

The user reports feeds, follows, reactions, and Pixelfed federation failing, and the maintainer says unreleased updates are ready but delayed.

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the feeds not refreshing and i need to refresh each user’s feed on its own to make it work
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg?

Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg?

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Collected Signals

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mixed Fantastic! (5 stars) review · 2026-05-15T11:22:06+00:00 · low severity · rss

The reviewer loves the Friends plugin but notes its page may be overriding the theme header.

Evidence: the /friends page is overriding my theme header
compatibility quality easy Friends page display content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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question Batch Add Follows Possible? support · 2026-02-22T15:14:56+00:00 · low severity · rss

A migrating user wants a bulk way to add over 100 follows instead of adding them one at a time.

Evidence: I’m migrating from another server and adding 100+ follows one by one is frustrating.
migration missing feature bulk follow import content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Followed an account with complicated name and can’t rename it support · 2026-02-05T09:51:11+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Friends used a Mastodon screen name with special characters in an admin URL, leaving the user unable to edit or rename the followed account.

Evidence: Followed an account with complicated name and can’t rename it
bugs missing feature federated account editing content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Followers page of plugin looks broken support · 2026-02-02T16:39:21+00:00 · medium severity · rss

The Friends followers page appears broken, with missing avatars and a non-working Load posts expansion despite ActivityPub followers displaying correctly.

Evidence: Avatars not shown for followers and overall items in the list look broken. The Load posts expansion does not work.
bugs followers page display content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Is the plugin working fine for anybody? support · 2026-01-13T14:52:45+00:00 · medium severity · rss

The user reports feeds, follows, reactions, and Pixelfed federation failing, and the maintainer says unreleased updates are ready but delayed.

Evidence: the feeds not refreshing and i need to refresh each user’s feed on its own to make it work
bugs compatibility support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Troubleshooting Scheduled Cache Refresh for Friend Status Feeds support · 2026-01-02T15:49:23+00:00 · medium severity · rss

A Friends plugin user needs friend status feeds to refresh automatically every 5 or 10 minutes instead of only through a manual cache button.

Evidence: friend statuses only update manually via the ‘refresh cache’ button
missing feature setup scheduled feed refresh content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed I love it, what a very cool plugin! (5 stars) review · 2026-01-01T20:18:20+00:00 · low severity · rss

The reviewer loves the Friends plugin but wants customizable messages and a directory to find other sites using it.

Evidence: it would be nice if there was an option to customize the FRIENDS message AND also view a directory
missing feature quality friends discovery content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Warnings and errors in log function called incorrectly. support · 2025-12-18T12:18:22+00:00 · low severity · rss

Friends generated log notices for early translation loading and an undefined username variable, with no response in the thread.

Evidence: PHP Warning: Undefined variable $username
bugs compatibility activity feed parser content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Seeing an error in debug support · 2025-11-02T11:59:54+00:00 · low severity · rss

The user reported a JavaScript TypeError from the Friends admin script while debugging.

Evidence: TypeError: $(…).find(…).reverse is not a function
bugs admin JavaScript content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Stopped seeing friend feed updates support · 2025-10-21T17:05:42+00:00 · medium severity · rss

The Friends plugin initially worked but then stopped showing friend feed updates, apparently related to a known GitHub issue.

Evidence: I’ve stopped seeing friend feed updates.
bugs friend feed updates content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Following Pixelfed users doesn’t really work? support · 2025-09-24T20:14:24+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Friends can appear to follow Pixelfed users but does not fetch their updates or clearly register the follow on Pixelfed.

Evidence: I can “follow” pixelfed users... but i do not get their updates
bugs compatibility Pixelfed following content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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question Is there anything like a timeline? support · 2025-08-24T10:51:37+00:00 · low severity · rss

A user asked whether the Friends plugin provides a Mastodon-like local timeline and was told single-user WordPress instances only receive subscribed posts.

Evidence: if in my WordPress installation there will be something like a “time line”
missing feature Fediverse local timeline content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Friends critical error support · 2025-07-25T01:57:32+00:00 · high severity · rss

The Friends plugin caused a WordPress critical error during a scheduled cleanup task.

Evidence: An error of type E_ERROR was caused
bugs cron cleanup task content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed “Liking” other peoples posts support · 2025-07-04T16:07:41+00:00 · medium severity · rss

“Liking” other peoples posts: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: So it is actually possible to “like” other peoples posts?
missing feature support setup reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint “Could not retieve”-notice in log files? support · 2025-06-12T09:18:34+00:00 · medium severity · rss

“Could not retieve”-notice in log files?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I like to reply to a toot, but when i look for it i get a “Could not retrieve”- notice.
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Fatal error when adding new friend support · 2025-05-28T12:32:24+00:00 · high severity · rss

Fatal error when adding new friend: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fatal error when adding new friend Hi!
bugs compatibility support value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg? support · 2025-05-21T18:07:24+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to share the content you publish in feed through the friends plg?
missing feature support quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Extending Friends’ Frontend Layouts for Fediverse Control via FSE support · 2025-04-02T15:46:20+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Extending Friends’ Frontend Layouts for Fediverse Control via FSE: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: There is a Pull Request for this: https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/362 Unfortunately I haven’t been able to spend more time on it lately.
value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Direct Messages via ActivityPub? support · 2025-03-07T11:46:02+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Direct Messages via ActivityPub?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to send direct messages via ActivityPub?
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Friends tags on my WordPress site support · 2025-03-05T09:34:31+00:00 · medium severity · rss

Friends tags on my WordPress site: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi!
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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