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Friendika
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Distributed Social Network
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http://friendika.com
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Did you ever wonder what might happen if you ever left Facebook?
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What if there was a social network which provided some of the same interaction
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you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and where your
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privacy is always under your control?
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And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet,
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and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in exchange for
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selling your private information to advertisers)?
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Look no further.
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Friendika is a social network without boundaries. Friendika installations can
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link together into a global social network which is free from central
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control. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy enhanced]; you can
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connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, Status.Net and many
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other sites and social networks *today*.
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We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many
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other open social networks and providers - like Diaspora, GNU-Social,
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OneSocialWeb, and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and
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Twitter.
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Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to
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become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle.
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Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to
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you - and are only meant to be shared with those you wish to share them with.
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Period.
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Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy settings
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are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships rarely are
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(straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with drinking
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buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is only able to
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see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a private message to
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your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade encryption.
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Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering a
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feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is vapour
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and vague promises. Friendika delivers the goods, time and time again.
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A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to
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several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these
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people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends
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and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share
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photos, links, status updates, etc.
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But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too.
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Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support
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social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private
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communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs
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of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations.
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Every person on Friendika has unlimited profiles available to them. There is a
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"public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be
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tailored to specific groups or individuals.
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Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your
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conversations with one group of friends is completely isolated from other
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friends or groups of friends.
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You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest groups,
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and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that require
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the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika provides for automatic
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relationship management in these extreme cases so that you can concentrate on
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your message and public persona - and not worry about being swamped by friend
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requests. You can even maintain private social contact with your closest
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friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface.
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No other social network offers this ability.
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IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements.
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