X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=ed57760512ce39c0e559cca161d232ffab7a7b50;hb=7a1947b88a688505298959020e000c186139c806;hp=7c81097a3e9e174725b60b4b87563ddbc6a831f1;hpb=7a174c1cc87330bcfd7facefa89a596ce701edc3;p=friendica.git diff --git a/README b/README index 7c81097a3e..ed57760512 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,82 +1,13 @@ +Friendica Social Communications Server +====================================== - ********* - Friendika - ********* +http://friendica.com - Distributed Social Network +Welcome to the free social web. - http://friendika.com -Did you ever wonder what might happen if you ever left Facebook? - -What if there was a social network which provided some of the same interaction -you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and where your -privacy is always under your control? - -And 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. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy enhanced]; you can -connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, Status.Net and many -other sites and social networks *today*. - -We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many -other open social networks and providers - like Diaspora, GNU-Social, -OneSocialWeb, 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. - -Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to -you - and are only meant to be 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. If you send a private message to -your aunt Mary, we encrypt it with military grade encryption. Other social -networks talk about privacy and offering a feature-rich social networking -alternative, but Friendika delivers. Time and time again. - -A single instance of Friendika 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. +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/ \ No newline at end of file