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* Friendika *
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Friendika Communications Server
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http://project.friendika.com
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Friendika is a web application for managing social communications. Some
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would call it a "social network" or "distributed social network". We think
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both terms have been over-used, and don't adequately describe Friendika's
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capabilities - though Friendika can also fill those roles.
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At its essence, Friendika is a web application which can monitor various
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information and social activity streams, and which also lets you participate
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in online conversations with friends and associates, using a variety of network
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protocols. These are combined into an overview of your various communications
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and activities - regardless of network origin.
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Friendika also manages your personal profiles and photo albums and lets
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you securely present each of these to specific audiences. Your communications
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can be either open and public, or closed and private. You can easily create
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"groups" of contacts with which you can partition your conversations into
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private social circles, and which cannot be seen outside the circle.
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Friendika is decentralised. Any account on any Friendika server can connect
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with any account on any other Friendika server. You can also connect to and
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interact directly with friends on Facebook, Status.Net, and other federated
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social web services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.).
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Outgoing communications can be directed to Friendika, existing accounts on
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Facebook and Twitter, federated social web providers - or even delivered to
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email contacts.
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Incoming data streams aren't limited to traditional social networks.
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They may include most any service which provides a syndication feed (both RSS
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and Atom). This allows you to view communications from friends in other
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diverse social networks - such as Diaspora, Google Buzz, and millions of
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blogs, news services, and other websites. You can also import
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contacts from (and write to) anybody that is accessible from your email
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INBOX and view them in your social stream. Over time we will try to
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build two-way bridges to other services so that you can freely
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interact in both directions with anybody on an accessible network that
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allows it.
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Communications between Friendika servers are private and encrypted,
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using military grade encryption - and require mutual identity provenance
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before any data is exchanged. These same crypto mechanisms provide remote
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password-less authentication; allowing you to post to profiles and view private
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photo collections on other servers - without encountering any login and/or
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authorisation dialogues when visiting these sites.
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Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership of the data generated
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within the network. Anybody with a commodity PHP/MySQL web server or hosting
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account can provide a server, and each individual server can then support
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up to several thousand participating members - each with their own unique
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communication and privacy needs. This allows Friendika to scale to global
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levels and mimics the decentralised architecture of the web itself.
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If you are creating a website which requires social interaction, Friendika
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can also take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and
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also provide individualised communications and content management - or
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simply be used as an alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks.
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Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word.
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Choose freedom - join us.
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Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com
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Friendika Demo Site
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http://demo.friendika.com
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Friendika Downloads
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http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master
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