6 Friendika Communications Server
8 http://project.friendika.com
11 Friendika is a web application for managing social communications. Some
12 would call it a "social network" or "distributed social network". We think
13 both terms have been over-used, and don't adequately describe Friendika's
14 capabilities - though Friendika can also fill those roles.
16 At its essence, Friendika is a web application which can monitor various
17 information and social activity streams, and which also lets you participate
18 in online conversations with friends and associates, using a variety of network
19 protocols. These are combined into an overview of your various communications
20 and activities - regardless of network origin.
22 Friendika also manages your personal profiles and photo albums and lets
23 you securely present each of these to specific audiences. Your communications
24 can be either open and public, or closed and private. You can easily create
25 "groups" of contacts with which you can partition your conversations into
26 private social circles, and which cannot be seen outside the circle.
28 Friendika is decentralised. Any account on any Friendika server can connect
29 with any account on any other Friendika server. You can also connect to and
30 interact directly with friends on Facebook, Status.Net, and other federated
31 social web services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.).
33 Outgoing communications can be directed to Friendika, existing accounts on
34 Facebook and Twitter, federated social web providers - or even delivered to
37 Incoming data streams aren't limited to traditional social networks.
38 They may include most any service which provides a syndication feed (both RSS
39 and Atom). This allows you to view communications from friends in other
40 diverse social networks - such as Diaspora, Google Buzz, and millions of
41 blogs, news services, and other websites. You can also import
42 contacts from (and write to) anybody that is accessible from your email
43 INBOX and view them in your social stream. Over time we will try to
44 build two-way bridges to other services so that you can freely
45 interact in both directions with anybody on an accessible network that
48 Communications between Friendika servers are private and encrypted,
49 using military grade encryption - and require mutual identity provenance
50 before any data is exchanged. These same crypto mechanisms provide remote
51 password-less authentication; allowing you to post to profiles and view private
52 photo collections on other servers - without encountering any login and/or
53 authorisation dialogues when visiting these sites.
55 Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership of the data generated
56 within the network. Anybody with a commodity PHP/MySQL web server or hosting
57 account can provide a server, and each individual server can then support
58 up to several thousand participating members - each with their own unique
59 communication and privacy needs. This allows Friendika to scale to global
60 levels and mimics the decentralised architecture of the web itself.
62 If you are creating a website which requires social interaction, Friendika
63 can also take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and
64 also provide individualised communications and content management - or
65 simply be used as an alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks.
67 Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word.
69 Choose freedom - join us.
71 Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com
77 http://demo.friendika.com
83 http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master