diff --git a/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawler.ex b/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawler.ex
index f747a22..0d3f852 100644
--- a/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawler.ex
+++ b/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawler.ex
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ defmodule Backend.Crawler do
   """
 
   alias __MODULE__
-  alias Backend.Crawler.Crawlers.{GnuSocial, Mastodon, Misskey, Nodeinfo}
+  alias Backend.Crawler.Crawlers.{Friendica, GnuSocial, Mastodon, Misskey, Nodeinfo}
   alias Backend.Crawler.ApiCrawler
   alias Backend.{Crawl, CrawlInteraction, MostRecentCrawl, Repo, Instance, InstancePeer}
   import Ecto.Query
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ defmodule Backend.Crawler do
     |> register(Mastodon)
     |> register(Misskey)
     |> register(GnuSocial)
+    |> register(Friendica)
     # go!
     |> crawl()
     |> save()
diff --git a/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawlers/friendica.ex b/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawlers/friendica.ex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5fc4abf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/lib/backend/crawler/crawlers/friendica.ex
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+defmodule Backend.Crawler.Crawlers.Friendica do
+  alias Backend.Crawler.ApiCrawler
+  import Backend.Crawler.Util
+  import Backend.Util
+  require Logger
+
+  @behaviour ApiCrawler
+
+  @impl ApiCrawler
+  def is_instance_type?(domain, nodeinfo_result) do
+    if nodeinfo_result != nil do
+      Map.get(nodeinfo_result, :instance_type) == :friendica
+    else
+      case get_statistics(domain) do
+        {:ok, stats} -> Map.get(stats, "network") |> String.downcase() == "friendica"
+        {:error, _other} -> false
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  @impl ApiCrawler
+  def allows_crawling?(domain) do
+    [
+      "/statistics.json"
+    ]
+    |> Enum.map(fn endpoint -> "https://#{domain}#{endpoint}" end)
+    |> urls_are_crawlable?()
+  end
+
+  @impl ApiCrawler
+  def crawl(domain, nodeinfo_result) do
+    details =
+      case get_statistics(domain) do
+        {:ok, s} -> s
+        {:error, _err} -> %{}
+      end
+      |> convert_keys_to_atoms()
+      |> (fn m ->
+            %{
+              version: m.version,
+              user_count: m.total_users,
+              status_count: m.local_posts
+            }
+          end).()
+      |> Map.merge(nodeinfo_result)
+
+    peers =
+      case get_and_decode("https://#{domain}/poco/@server") do
+        {:ok, p} -> p
+        {:error, _err} -> []
+      end
+      |> Enum.map(fn peer ->
+        peer
+        |> Map.get("url")
+        |> to_domain()
+      end)
+
+    if details |> Map.get(:user_count, 0) |> is_above_user_threshold?() do
+      Map.merge(
+        %{peers: peers, interactions: %{}, statuses_seen: 0, instance_type: :friendica},
+        Map.take(details, [:description, :version, :user_count, :status_count])
+      )
+    else
+      nodeinfo_result
+    end
+  end
+
+  defp get_statistics(domain) do
+    get_and_decode("https://#{domain}/statistics.json")
+  end
+
+  defp to_domain(url) do
+    url =
+      cond do
+        String.starts_with?(url, "https://") -> String.slice(url, 8..-1)
+        String.starts_with?(url, "http://") -> String.slice(url, 7..-1)
+        true -> url
+      end
+
+    url
+  end
+end
diff --git a/frontend/src/constants.tsx b/frontend/src/constants.tsx
index 55f29bf..86207fa 100644
--- a/frontend/src/constants.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/constants.tsx
@@ -39,4 +39,13 @@ export interface IInstanceDomainPath {
   domain: string;
 }
 
-export const INSTANCE_TYPES = ["mastodon", "gab", "pleroma", "misskey", "gnusocial", "writefreely", "peertube"];
+export const INSTANCE_TYPES = [
+  "mastodon",
+  "gab",
+  "pleroma",
+  "misskey",
+  "gnusocial",
+  "writefreely",
+  "peertube",
+  "friendica"
+];