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Friendica

Friendica is a distributed social network application. Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, diaspora*, Pump.io and StatusNet into their 'newsfeed'.

Timeline of the user meeting forum. Duepunto Zero theme.

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  • Online
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • PHP
  • Docker
User status page
Profile page of the UX Watchdogs forum. Vier theme.
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Public events of the Berliner Luft forum. Vier theme.
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Features

Properties

  1.  Decentralized
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Federated
  2. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  3.  Ad-free
  4. diaspora* icon  Diaspora integration
  5. X icon  X Integration
  6.  Commodity hosting support
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  Support for @mentions
  9.  Team Messaging
  10.  Community events
  11.  Rsvp
  12.  Distributed
  13.  Team Collaboration

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Top Positive Comment
Opensourcelover
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If you're here after Facebook dropped the moderation standards then you're in the right place. Friendica is a great fediverse alternative as it has lots of features and has been development for a long time.

Top Negative Comment
RuthL
-4

I’m not sure I do. You have a bunch of different servers or you make your own.

For me, though it says you can do groups...and the “screenshots” look good, the fact that you have to apply to a server or make your own server is not a good choice for someone like me.

Agustin Haro
-1

Few days using it, and very nice!

[Edited by tecnochango18, December 10]

desputinski
2

Great Alternative! It's as easy to install as a Wordpress-blog! Just download Zip, unpack on sftp-webspace, get mysql-database and go. Compatible to ALL other alternative social networks.

markusKeuter
0

The site is friendica.com and the product is called friendica. I have no idea how to change this, other than remove this entrie and create a correct one?

ufo_chaser

fixed it for ya buddy =), didnt touch twitter though because i dunno if that's changed too

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What is Friendica?

Friendica is a distributed social network application. Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, diaspora*, Pump.io and StatusNet into their 'newsfeed'. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to Google+, Google Buzz, WordPress, Tumblr, GNU-social, and Libertree. The list of supported networks is growing. In addition, e-mail contacts and RSS feeds can be integrated.

The developers argue that decentralization on small servers is a key condition for the freedom of users and their self-determination.

There are two options to choose from to try Friendica. The first option is to join one of the already installed Friendica server listed at http://dir.friendica.social/servers The second option is to install your own server at https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases Both options are fully free.

Friendica runs on commodity hosting platforms powered by PHP/MySQL/Apache. If you can install Drupal or Wordpress you can probably install Friendica. A single Friendica installation supports up to several thousand members.

Every Friendica installation can connect with any other to create a social network without limits. And one that nobody can own or control.

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Social & Communications, Development, Office & Productivity, Remote Work & Education

GitHub repository

  •  1,689 Stars
  •  382 Forks
  •  1435 Open Issues
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Friendica, and it has gotten 142 likes

Friendica was added to AlternativeTo by turin on and this page was last updated .