+Friendica Social Communications Server
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- Friendika
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+http://friendica.com
- Distributed Social Network
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- http://friendika.com
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- Since the dawn of the world-wide-web, the internet has been a battleground
-between the "big boys" with all their resources, and a bunch of upstarts whose
-goal is to topple the status quo - and bring the same powers of global reach
-to anybody with a computer and an internet connection.
-
- The latest battleground is social networking. Many of your friends would
-have you believe that the world (and all the information in it) belongs to
-Facebook.
-
- Friendika is here to rock that boat.
-
- Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you
-in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still
-poking each other and managing their virtual farms. Would you miss them?
-
- I wouldn't.
-
- You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell them
-that the world has changed. It's time to move on.
-
- 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, and without ownership.
-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 also connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca,
-Status.Net and many other sites and social networks *today*.
-
- Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika,
-you can choose any of 20-30 other providers of social networking software and
-still be a part of this new social network. This is bigger than Facebook.
-
- Much bigger.
-
- 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.
-
- 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. We also won't share it with advertisers.
-
- 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. You've probably heard about the four guys in New
-York and their "Facebook killer". What a disaster that was. Eventually they
-may get it right and release something that actually works, but they may not.
-What are you going to use in the meantime?
-
- Friendika delivers.
-
- 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.
-
- 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. Try doing that on Twitter.
-
- 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.
-
- Join us.
+Welcome to the free social web.
+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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