+Friendica Social Communications Server
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- * Friendika *
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+http://friendica.com
- Friendika Communications Server
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- http://project.friendika.com
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- Friendika is a web application for managing social communications. Some
-would call it a "social network" or "distributed social network". We think
-both terms have been over-used, and don't adequately describe Friendika's
-capabilities - though Friendika can also fill those roles.
-
- At its essence, Friendika is a web application which can monitor various
-information and social activity streams, and which also lets you participate
-in online conversations with friends and associates, using a variety of network
-protocols. These are combined into an overview of your various communications
-and activities - regardless of network origin.
-
- Friendika also manages your personal profiles and photo albums and lets
-you securely present each of these to specific audiences. Your communications
-can be either open and public, or closed and private. You can easily create
-"groups" of contacts with which you can partition your conversations into
-private social circles, and which cannot be seen outside the circle.
-
- 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 Facebook, Status.Net, and other federated
-social web services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.).
-
- 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 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
-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
-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
-communication and privacy needs. This allows Friendika to scale to global
-levels and mimics the decentralised architecture of the web itself.
-
- If you are creating a website which requires social interaction, Friendika
-can also take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and
-also provide individualised communications and content management - or
-simply be used as an alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks.
-
- Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word.
-
- Choose freedom - join us.
-
- Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com
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- Friendika Demo Site
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- http://demo.friendika.com
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- Friendika Downloads
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- http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master
+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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