Decentralisation

Decentralised architecture with no central authority or ownership

Relationships can be made across any compatible system, creating a network of internet scale made up of smaller sites

Seamless wall-to-wall posts and remote comments, even across different network nodes

Privacy

Access list on every items

Private conversation groups - on these pages all communications are restricted to group members

One-to-one private messaging on supported protocols

Optionally "expire" old content after a certain period of time.

Download your personal data. It all belongs to you.

Interoperability

Built-in support for status.net, GNU-social, quitter, Diaspora

Email contacts and communications supported (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP

Arbitrary websites and blogs may be imported into your social stream via RSS/Atom feeds

Plugin support to other services

A personal social network

Keep in contact only with people you care

Posts

Write your thoughts, edit them if you want. Comment, Like and Dislike posts from your contacts.

Photos

Share your holiday photos, but only with people you want.

Events

Organize next meeting of your reading group, or let everybody know about your cool party!

Profiles

Like in real life, have a public profile and private aspects only for your closest friends. Or keep everything private!

Free software - Free protocols

Friendica is free software and use free protocols.

Stack

PHP & MySQL

Run your personal Friendica node on shared hosts

Friendica runs on PHP with MySQL as database. If you can run Wordpress, you can run Friendica.

Plugin

Extensible

Extensible via third-party plugin modules and themes.

Add functionalities, personalize look and feel, connect to thirty-part serivces.