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<li><a href="#media-timeline">Media timeline</a></li>
<li><a href="#moderation">Moderation</a></li>
<li><a href="#themes">Themes</a></li>
<li><a href="#buying-and-selling">Buying and selling</a></li>
<li><a href="#sharing-economy">Sharing economy</a></li>
<li><a href="#search">Search</a></li>
<li><a href="#browsing-in-a-command-shell">Browsing in a command
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number of large servers. Also, in spite of the prevailing great
obsession with scale, not everything needs to. You can federate with a
small number of servers for a particular purpose - such as running a
club or hackspace - and that’s ok.</p>
club or hackspace - and that’s ok. It supports both the server-to-server
(S2S) and client-to-server (C2S) versions of the ActivityPub protocol,
with <a
href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication">basic
auth</a> for C2S authentication.</p>
<p><a
href="https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51?gi=9baf6195c60b">Anti-virality</a>
is a common design approach in the fediverse, and Epicyon also follows
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activity without giving away your real location.</p>
<h3 id="verifying-your-website-or-blog">Verifying your website or
blog</h3>
<p>It is possible to indicate that a website of blog belongs to you by
<p>It is possible to indicate that a website or blog belongs to you by
linking it to your profile screen. Within the <em>head</em> html section
of your website or blog index page include a line similar to:</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb18"><pre
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<p>Selecting the <em>location</em> header will open the last known
geolocation, so if your current location is near this makes it quicker
to find.</p>
<h2 id="scientific-references">Scientific references</h2>
<p>It is possible to have references to scientific papers linked
automatically, such that they are readable with one click/press.
Supported references are <a href="https://arxiv.org">arXiv</a> and <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier">Digital
object identifier (DOI)</a>. For example:</p>
<pre class="text"><code>This is a reference to a paper: arxiv:2203.15752</code></pre>
<h1 id="the-timeline">The Timeline</h1>
<h2 id="layout">Layout</h2>
<figure>
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<img src="manual-theme-designer.png" alt="Theme designer screen" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Theme designer screen</figcaption>
</figure>
<h1 id="buying-and-selling">Buying and selling</h1>
<p>When creating a new post you have the option of specifying a <em>buy
link</em> This is a link to a web page where you can buy some particular
item. When someone receives the post if they have a compatible instance
then a small shopping cart icon will appear at the bottom of the post
along with the other icons. Clicking or pressing the shopping cart will
then take you to the buying site. It’s a predictable and machine
parsable way indicating that something is for sale, separate from the
post content.</p>
<p>To avoid spam, it is possible for the shopping icon to only appear if
it links to one of an allowed list of seller domains. In this way you
can be confident that you are only navigating to approved sites.</p>
<h1 id="sharing-economy">Sharing economy</h1>
<p>This is intended to add <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network">Freecycle</a>

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14. [Media timeline](#media-timeline)
15. [Moderation](#moderation)
16. [Themes](#themes)
17. [Sharing economy](#sharing-economy)
18. [Search](#search)
19. [Browsing in a command shell](#browsing-in-a-command-shell)
20. [Building fediverse communities](#building-fediverse-communities)
17. [Buying and selling](#buying-and-selling)
18. [Sharing economy](#sharing-economy)
19. [Search](#search)
20. [Browsing in a command shell](#browsing-in-a-command-shell)
21. [Building fediverse communities](#building-fediverse-communities)
# Introduction
*"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."*
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![Theme designer screen](manual-theme-designer.png)
# Buying and selling
When creating a new post you have the option of specifying a *buy link* This is a link to a web page where you can buy some particular item. When someone receives the post if they have a compatible instance then a small shopping cart icon will appear at the bottom of the post along with the other icons. Clicking or pressing the shopping cart will then take you to the buying site. It's a predictable and machine parsable way indicating that something is for sale, separate from the post content.
To avoid spam, it is possible for the shopping icon to only appear if it links to one of an allowed list of seller domains. In this way you can be confident that you are only navigating to approved sites.
# Sharing economy
This is intended to add [Freecycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network) type functionality within a social network context, leveraging your social connections on the instance, or between participating instances, to facilitate sharing and reduce wasteful consumerism.