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+Friendica Social Communications Server
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-    *************
-    * Friendika *
-    *************
+http://friendica.com
 
-    Friendika Communications Server
+Welcome to the free social web.
 
-    http://project.friendika.com
-
-
-	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 really apply - though Friendika can
-also fill those roles.
-
-	At its essence, Friendika is a web application which can monitor various
-information streams, and also let you participate in online conversations with
-friends and associates using a variety of network protocols.
-
-	Friendika also manages your personal profiles and photo albums and lets 
-you tailor either 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 social
-circles.
-
-	Friendika is decentralised. Any account on any Friendika server can connect
-with any other Friendika account on any other server. You can also connect to
-friends on Status.Net and other federated social web services (e.g. identi.ca,
-GNU-Social, etc.).
-
-	Outgoing communications can be directed at these networks and/or your
-existing accounts on Facebook and Twitter - and even delivered to email 
-contacts.
-
-	Incoming data streams aren't limited to traditional social networks.
-They may include most any service that provide 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 
-Wordpress blogs, news services, and other websites. Over time we will try to
-build two-way bridges to many of these services so that you can freely
-interact in both directions with anybody who allows it. 
-
-	 Communications between supported networks are private and encrypted, 
-using military grade encryption - and require mutual authentication of servers
-before any data is exchanged. 
-
-    Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership. Anybody with a 
-commodity PHP/MySQL web server can provide a membership hub, and each 
-individual server can then support several thousand participating members 
-- each with their own unique communication and privacy needs.
-
-	If you are creating a website which requires social interaction, Friendika 
-can take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and
-also provide individualised communications and content management - or
-provide a ready alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks.
-
-    Join us.
-
-	Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com
-
-    *******************
-    Friendika Demo Site
-    *******************
-
-    http://demo.friendika.com
-
-    *******************
-    Friendika Downloads
-    *******************
-
-    http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master
 
+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.
 
+Report issues at http://bugs.friendica.com/
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