Friendica - your open and free social network ============================================= Welcome to the free social web. Friendica is a platform for decentralised social communication linking to other independent social and corporate services. Being part of the Fediverse allows you to be free from data-harvesting corporations. Enjoy open social communication, independent of any specific provider. Friendica connects you to a federated communications network of thousands of servers called the Fediverse. Through various protocols you can interact with anyone on [Friendica]( https://friendi.ca), [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org), [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/), [Diaspora](https://diasporafoundation.org), [Misskey](https://join.misskey.page), [Peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) and many more. Receiving content from Tumblr, Wordpress and RSS is also possible. Friendica allows to import and mirror your content via add-ons such as ITTT and Buffer. You can customize and control how publicly or privately you want to share your content. [Join Friendica]((https://dir.friendica.social/servers)) today or setup [your own Friendica instance](doc/Install.md). ### Screenshots | ![Frio theme in mobile browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-mobile-profile-1.png?raw=true "Frio theme in mobile browser") ![Frio theme in mobile browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-mobile-profile-2.png?raw=true "Frio theme in mobile browser") | |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:| | *Frio theme, mobile browser. Timeline and composer view.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-green-profile-1.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Frio theme, desktop browser. Timeline view, contact info popped up, control menu open.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-green-profile-2.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Frio theme, desktop browser. Menu open for controlling individual posts.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-red-profile-3.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Frio theme, desktop browser. Profile view, notification menu open.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-red-profile-2.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Number of new posts, in total and by circle.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-red-profile-1.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Calendar with popup of event.* | | ![Frio theme default colour in standard browser on tablet](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-default-profile-1.png?raw=true "Frio theme default colour in standard browser on tablet") | | *Notifications menu and private messages counter, standard browser on tablet.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-brown-profile-2.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Number of visible contacts, standard browser.* | | ![Frio theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-frio-brown-profile-1.png?raw=true "Frio theme in desktop browser") | | *Network posts chronologically ordered, standard browser.* | | ![Vier theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-vier-profile.png?raw=true "Vier theme in desktop browser") | | *Vier theme, desktop browser. Public timeline view.* | | ![Vier theme in desktop browser](images/screenshots/friendica-vier-community.png?raw=true "Vier theme in desktop browser") | | *Vier theme, desktop browser. Community post displayed.* | ## Endorsements - [![Awesome Humane Tech](images/humane-tech-badge.svg)](https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech) On August 12th 2020, Friendica was added to [the curated Awesome Humane Tech directory](https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech) in [the "Fediverse" category](https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech#fediverse).