-Mistpark Server
-Version 2.0 alpha
+ Friendika
+ Distributed Social Network
-IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements.
+ http://friendika.com
+
+What if there was a social network which was free to use, open source - and
+where your privacy is always under your control?
+
+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*.
+
+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.
+
+Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to
+become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle.
-Mistpark introduces a new generation of social networks. Mistpark Server
-allows you to interact with other members of the Mistpark community using
-the DFRN (Distributed Friends and Relations Network) protocol. Other networks
-(such as Diaspora, OneSocialWeb, status.net, etc.) will be supported in the
-future as their products mature and protocol and privacy/rights issues are
-resolved between these networks.
+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.
-It's your network now. If social networking isn't what you thought it would
-be, help us to make it better.
+Period.
-A single instance of Mistpark Server supports up to several hundred people
-using commodity hosting hardware. Also available from Mistpark Labs is
-Mistpark Personal Edition, which supports a single user.
+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.
-Please see http://dfrn.org for more information on the mistpark/DFRN project.
+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.
-We will be providing a support site specifically for mistpark at
-http://mistpark.com at a future (unspecified) date. We are still
-evaluating wiki, forum, and bug-tracking software for use on the project.
-At the present time, you may contact the author and raise issues via
-the source code repository on github.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+No other social network offers this ability.
+
+IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements.
-Please support mistpark with a donation.
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