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Friendica

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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'.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Linux
  • Android
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • F-Droid
  • PHP
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (7)
139 likes
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

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

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  • App icon
    GorillaMan added Friendica as alternative to Cheddify
    25 days ago
  • App icon
    ourari added Friendica as alternative to Quodari
    30 days ago
  • Opensourcelover thinks Diaspora integration is a important feature of Friendica
    about 1 month ago
  • FitikWasTaken rated Friendica  
    about 1 month ago
  • Opensourcelover reviewed Friendica  
    about 1 month ago

    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.

  • Opensourcelover liked Friendica
    about 2 months ago
  • App icon
    T1MEL1NE added Friendica as alternative to T1MEL1NE
    3 months ago
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Friendica information

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Social & CommunicationsRemote Work & EducationDevelopmentOffice & Productivity

GitHub repository

  •  1,510 Stars
  •  349 Forks
  •  1280 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 11, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Friendica, and it has gotten 139 likes

Friendica was added to AlternativeTo by turin on Nov 26, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 26, 2021.

Comments and Reviews

   
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desputinski
  
Top positive commentJan 29, 2019

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.

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RuthL
  
Top negative commentFeb 15, 2021

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.

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Opensourcelover
  
Positive comment
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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.

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Agustin Haro
  
Positive commentDec 10, 2019

Few days using it, and very nice!

[Edited by tecnochango18, December 10]

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markusKeuter
CommentDec 7, 2012

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?

1 reply
ufo_chaser

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

Reply written Dec 7, 2012

If this reply contains spam or other abuse, notify admins about it.
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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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