X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=598b6d292145d21e2dda6c16f2eabf073dc6e3f9;hb=721db93e8450eb051f98a9a0b12db476d3cc3dfc;hp=25adb169e0af3141335e31b22fd08887cc6032b6;hpb=0765323b174a5ee4cfd1b49c5c62838463d9eed4;p=friendica.git diff --git a/README b/README index 25adb169e0..598b6d2921 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,47 +1,86 @@ -Mistpark Server -Version 2.0 alpha - -IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements. - -Mistpark introduces a new generation of social networks. Mistpark Server -allows you to interact with other members of the Mistpark community using -the DFRN (Distributed Friends and Relations Network) protocol. Other networks -(such as Diaspora, OneSocialWeb, status.net, etc.) will be supported in the -future as their products mature and protocol and privacy/rights issues are -resolved between these networks. - -It's your network now. If social networking isn't what you thought it would -be, help us to make it better. - -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 mistpark/DFRN cell anywhere in the world and share photos, links, -status updates, whatever. Also available from Mistpark Labs is -Mistpark Personal Edition, which supports a single person. - -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. - -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 - and shown when a known friend -visits your site. - -Groups may be setup for closed conversations (like Diaspora's "aspects"). In -this way your conversations with drinking buddies may be kept completely -separate from conversations with co-workers (for instance). - -Please see http://dfrn.org for more information on the mistpark/DFRN project. - -We will be providing a support site specifically for mistpark at -http://mistpark.com at a future (unspecified) date. We are still -evaluating wiki, forum, and bug-tracking software for use on the project. -At the present time, you may contact the author and raise issues via -the source code repository on github.com. - -Please support mistpark with a donation. + ************* + * Friendika * + ************* + + Friendika Communications Server + + 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. + + 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 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. + + 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 + +