X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=598b6d292145d21e2dda6c16f2eabf073dc6e3f9;hb=2f5a34ad1791f01cacb3b86c11501f0e11c67df4;hp=693d3ecba35bab8e952e39d905c701443a023649;hpb=5c020b4aae5b0d9cd71fa2d925ed048c409d7ba5;p=friendica.git diff --git a/README b/README index 693d3ecba3..598b6d2921 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,58 +1,86 @@ -Mistpark Server -Distributed Social Network + ************* + * Friendika * + ************* -IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements. + Friendika Communications Server -Mistpark is a social network without boundaries. Mistpark installations can -all link together into a global social network which is free from central -control. We are also developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many -other open social networks and providers - GNU-social, Diaspora, Status.net, -and even the larger closed services such as Facebook and Twitter. + http://project.friendika.com -Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to -become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle. -Your personal thoughts and conversations belong to you - and are shared with -those you wish to share them with. + 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. -Period. + 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. -Mistpark is secure and as private as you wish it to be. 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 can only see -the side of you that you wish to present. + 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. -A single instance of Mistpark Server supports up to several hundred people -using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these people can connect with any -other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links, -status updates, whatever. + 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.). -But maybe you don't want to be connect to the world. That's OK too. Mistpark -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. Their network can grow to global scope as their maturity -increases - and can be made available only to their known friends until then. + Outgoing communications can be directed to Friendika, existing accounts on +Facebook and Twitter, federated social web providers - or even delivered to +email contacts. -Every person on Mistpark 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. + 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. -Groups may be setup for closed conversations. In this way your conversations -with one group of friends is completely isolated from other friends or groups -of friends. + 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. -Please see http://mistpark.com for more information. + 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. -At the present time, you may contact the author and raise issues via -the source code repository on github.com. + 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. -http://github.com/macgirvin/mistpark + 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 + + ******************* + Friendika Demo Site + ******************* + + http://demo.friendika.com + + ******************* + Friendika Downloads + ******************* + + http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master -It's your network now. If social networking isn't what you thought it would -be, help us to make it better. -Please support mistpark with a donation.