X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=598b6d292145d21e2dda6c16f2eabf073dc6e3f9;hb=7778dbb67b2c033473b0da9b34df01d28162b5ee;hp=ac34bbe36e52381c2b28c6404b35cc8bfa5abab8;hpb=efcff9145605847f794009b0fe6c8bb4879a86a3;p=friendica.git diff --git a/README b/README index ac34bbe36e..598b6d2921 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,67 +1,86 @@ - Friendika - Distributed Social Network - - http://friendika.com - -What if there was a social network which was free to use, open source - and -where your privacy is always under your control? - -What if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet, and -*not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in exchange for -selling your private information to advertisers)? - -Look no further. - -Friendika is a social network without boundaries. Friendika installations can -link together into a global social network which is free from central -control. We are developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many -other open social networks and providers - GNU-social, Diaspora, Status.net, -and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and Twitter. - -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. - -Period. - -Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our 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 is only able to -see the side of you that you wish to present. - -A single instance of Friendika Server can easily support hundreds of (and up to -several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these -people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends -and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share -photos, links, status updates, etc. - -But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. -Friendika 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 and especially k-12 organisations. - -Every person on Friendika 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. - -Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your -conversations with one group of friends is completely isolated from other -friends or groups of friends. - -You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest groups, -and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that require -the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika provides for automatic -relationship management in these extreme cases so that you can concentrate on -your message and public persona - and not worry about being swamped by friend -requests. You can even maintain private social contact with your closest -friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface. - -No other social network offers this ability. - -IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements. + ************* + * 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 + +