Friendica
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Friendica (formerly Friendika, originally Mistpark) is a free and open-source software distributed social network. It forms one part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Friendica
- Software.logo
- Friendica Logo.png
- Software.screenshot
- Screenshot of Friendica.jpg
- Software.author
- Mike Macgirvin
- Software.developer
- Friendica community
- Software.released
- July 2010 (mistpark)
- Software.latest release version
- 2026.01
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.license
- AGPLv3+
- Software.programming language
- PHP
- Software.genre
- Social network service
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
Welcome to the free social web. Friendica is a platform for decentralised social communication linking to other independent social and corporate services. 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, Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora, Misskey, Peertube, Pixelfed, Pleroma 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 control the privacy scope of your content. Being part of the Fediverse allows you to be free from data-harvesting corporations. Enjoy open social communication, independent of any specific provider.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Features
- Development
- Installation
- List of clients
- Reception
- Later reviews
- Vulnerabilities
- See also
- References
- External links
Friendica (formerly Friendika, originally Mistpark) is a free and open-source software distributed social network. It forms one part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
==Features== Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social, email, Discourse and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Bluesky into their 'newsfeed'. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to WordPress, Tumblr, Insanejournal and Libertree. Posting to Google+ was also supported until that service was shut down. In addition, RSS feeds can be ingested. Because users are distributed across many servers, their "addresses" consist of a username, the "@" symbol, and the domain name of the Friendica instance in the same manner email addresses are formed. Twitter support was available but was deprecated due to API changes under Elon Musk's leadership rendering it unusable.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Friendica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.