Friendika is decentralised. Any account on any Friendika server can connect
with any account on any other Friendika server. You can also connect to and
-interact directly with friends on Status.Net and other federated social web
-services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.).
+interact directly with friends on Facebook, Status.Net, and other federated
+social web services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.).
- Outgoing communications can be directed at these networks and also
-existing accounts on Facebook and Twitter - or even delivered to email
-contacts.
+ Outgoing communications can be directed to Friendika, existing accounts on
+Facebook and Twitter, federated social web providers - or even delivered to
+email contacts.
Incoming data streams aren't limited to traditional social networks.
-They may include most any service that provide a syndication feed (both RSS
+They may include most any service which provides a syndication feed (both RSS
and Atom). This allows you to view communications from friends in other
diverse social networks - such as Diaspora, Google Buzz, and millions of
-Wordpress blogs, news services, and other websites. Over time we will try to
-build two-way bridges to many of these services so that you can freely
-interact in both directions with anybody who allows it.
-
- Communications between Friendika servers are private and encrypted,
+blogs, news services, and other websites. You can also import
+contacts from (and write to) anybody that is accessible from your email
+INBOX and view them in your social stream. Over time we will try to
+build two-way bridges to other services so that you can freely
+interact in both directions with anybody on an accessible network that
+allows it.
+
+ Communications between Friendika servers are private and encrypted,
using military grade encryption - and require mutual identity provenance
before any data is exchanged. These same crypto mechanisms provide remote
password-less authentication; allowing you to post to profiles and view private
photo collections on other servers - without encountering any login and/or
authorisation dialogues when visiting these sites.
- Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership of the data generated
+ Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership of the data generated
within the network. Anybody with a commodity PHP/MySQL web server or hosting
account can provide a server, and each individual server can then support
up to several thousand participating members - each with their own unique
Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word.
- Choose freedom. Join us.
+ Choose freedom - join us.
Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com