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+Friendica - your open and free social network
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-Friendica Global Directory
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+Welcome to the free social web. Friendica is a platform for decentralised social communication linking to other independent social and corporate services.
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+Friendica connects you to a federated communications network of thousands of servers called the Fediverse. Through various protocols you can interact with anyone on [Friendica]( https://friendi.ca), [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org), [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/), [Diaspora](https://diasporafoundation.org), [Misskey](https://join.misskey.page), [Peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) and many more. Receiving content from Tumblr, Wordpress and RSS is also possible. Friendica allows to import and mirror your content via add-ons such as ITTT and Buffer. You can customize and control how publicly or privately you want to share your content.
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+Being part of the Fediverse allows you to be free from data-harvesting corporations. Enjoy open social communication, independent of any specific provider.
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+[Join Friendica](https://dir.friendica.social/servers) today or setup [your own Friendica instance](doc/Install.md).
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+### Friendica on desktop
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+![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-2023-10-frio-desktop.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser")
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+### Friendica on mobile
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+<p float="left">
+<img src ="https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/2023.09-rc/images/screenshots/friendica-2023-10-frio-mobile-timeline-dark-blue.png" width="370" alt="frio on mobile, dark color scheme">
+<img src="https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/2023.09-rc/images/screenshots/friendica-2023-10-frio-mobile-options-light-blue.png" width="370" alt="frio on mobile, light color scheme">
+</p>
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+### Alternative Theme "Vier"
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+![Vier theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-vier-community.png?raw=true "Vier theme in desktop browser")
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+## Endorsements
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+- [![Awesome Humane Tech](images/humane-tech-badge.svg)](https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-humane-design) In August 2020 Friendica was added to the curated delightful humane design resources in the [Fediverse category](https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-humane-design#fediverse).