Friendika is here to rock that boat.
- Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you
+ 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 and telling you all about
their virtual gang wars. 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.
+ You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell those
+friends that the world has changed - because it has. It's time to move on. A
+year ago, if you had left Facebook, there was no place to go - at least a
+place which offered the same kind of social interaction (and wasn't just
+another huge company trying to make money off of all of your private
+information).
+
+ Today you have options.
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?
+interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was 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)?
+exchange for selling your private information; and everything else they can
+find out about you - from logging all of your online activities and
+conversations)?
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,
+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.
+ Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika
+(though we think you'd be foolish not to), you can choose any of 20-30 other
+providers of federated social networking software and still be a part of this
+vast new social network. This is going to be bigger than Facebook.
Much bigger.
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.
+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. 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 (and lets you do
-something besides drag your friends into categories), but they may not.
-What are you going to use in the meantime?
+vapour and vague promises. Things like "Private mail will be in the next
+release".
Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications
interface you can make use of *right now*.
- And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature,
+ And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature,
you couldn't be further from the truth. We like the conversational style
because it feels natural, and that's why Facebook grew to be what it is today.
But we're creating something completely different.
Something better.
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
+several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. You could even run
+Friendika on an old PC in your closet or garage. 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... and that's OK
+too. Friendika may 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.
No other social network offers this ability.
- Join us.
+
+ Join us.
+
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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
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