X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=598b6d292145d21e2dda6c16f2eabf073dc6e3f9;hb=3f59f632241d14b43ba8861033aac27dfcfbc9e3;hp=951ae05573b6a646867ed43f85843fa384fe687b;hpb=6683560c7edc64b0eaa47ad871e3e9bef7e5ef34;p=friendica.git diff --git a/README b/README index 951ae05573..598b6d2921 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,51 +10,63 @@ 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. +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 streams, and also let you participate in online conversations with -friends and associates using a variety of network protocols. +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 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. +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 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.). +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 at these networks and/or your -existing accounts on Facebook and Twitter - and even delivered to email -contacts. + 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 that provide a syndication feed (both RSS +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 -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. +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 take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and +can also 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. +simply be used as an alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks. + + Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word. - Join us. + Choose freedom - join us. Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com