+Friendica Social Communications Server
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- Friendika
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- Distributed Social Network
+Welcome to the free social web.
- http://friendika.com
-Did you ever wonder what might happen if you ever left Facebook?
-
-What if there was a social network which provided some of the same interaction
-you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and where your
-privacy is always under your control?
-
-And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet,
-and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in exchange for
-selling your private information to advertisers)?
-
-Look no further.
-
-Friendika is a social network without boundaries. Friendika installations can
-link together into a global social network which is free from central
-control. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy enhanced]; you can
-connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, Status.Net and many
-other sites and social networks *today*.
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-We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many
-other open social networks and providers - like Diaspora, GNU-Social,
-OneSocialWeb, and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and
-Twitter.
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-Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to
-become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle.
-
-Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to
-you - and are only meant to be shared with those you wish to share them with.
-
-Period.
-
-Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy settings
-are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships rarely are
-(straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with drinking
-buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is only able to
-see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a private message to
-your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade encryption.
-
-Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering a
-feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is vapour
-and vague promises. Friendika delivers the goods, time and time again.
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-A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to
-several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these
-people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends
-and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share
-photos, links, status updates, etc.
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-But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too.
-Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support
-social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private
-communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs
-of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations.
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-Every person on Friendika has unlimited profiles available to them. There is a
-"public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be
-tailored to specific groups or individuals.
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-Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your
-conversations with one group of friends is completely isolated from other
-friends or groups of friends.
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-You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest groups,
-and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that require
-the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika provides for automatic
-relationship management in these extreme cases so that you can concentrate on
-your message and public persona - and not worry about being swamped by friend
-requests. You can even maintain private social contact with your closest
-friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface.
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-No other social network offers this ability.
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-IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements.
+Friendica is a communications platform for integrated social communications utilising decentralised communications and linkage to several indie social projects - as well as popular mainstream providers.
+Our mission is to free our friends and families from the clutches of data-harvesting corporations, and pave the way to a future where social communications are free and open and flow between alternate providers as easily as email does today.
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