heluecht

2016-08-13 09:26:17

Features

• Post “Status Updates”
• Photos, albums, tagging, privacy
• Events Calendar
• Show different profiles to different people/communities
• Privacy with military encryption
• Relationship Control (Follow and or share only)
• Browse posts by protocol (RSS, Twitter, OStatus, ActivityPub)
• Following contacts and hashtags
• Themes and Addons
• Federation to Diaspora, Mastodon, Pleroma, Hubzilla, GNU Social, WordPress, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, PeerTube, OStatus, ActivityPub, Twitter, RSS, Buffer, etc
• Panel for User- and Systemadministration

Timelines

• Network Timeline – Posts of your contacts or post of the hashtags you are following
• Profile / Personal wall – Posts that you have created
• Community Page – Posts that are available on your node, consisting of public posts created from users of your node and public posts of contacts or hashtags users of your node are following
• Different sorting views
• Groups – you can put contacts in individual groups to just read their posts
• Comments and multiple posts are collapsed to the most recent (these may be expanded)

Posts & Status Updates

• “Unlimited” text length – many sites will allow up to 200k characters per post.
• Rich text supported – bold, italics, decoration, color, size, etc
• Paragraph formatting – tables, code blocks, quotations, etc
• Sharing of public posts (except private posts e.g. for closed group of recipients)
• Edit your posts after they have been published
• Oembed embedding support
• Media support includes Photos, Audio, Video, Embeds, Links, Youtube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, File Attachments and more
• Location/Geotagging Option for posts. Setting default location, using browser location setting or using an addon for random locations
• Common tag formats supported including @mentions and #hashtags
• Likes and dislikes
• Threadstyle Commenting
• Multiple deletion (delete all selected items)
• Seamless wall-to-wall posts and remote comments, even across different network nodes
• Notes to self – maintain your own private notebook
• Sending a post as email for non friendica users

Direct Messaging

• Network ’email’ – provides ‘one-to-one’ private messaging to any Friendica or Diaspora, Mastodon, Pleroma or any other network member

Distributed Forums

• Public Forums – where everybody, even anonymous can read and join the discussion
• Private Forums – members need to be accepted be the forum owner or moderators. Discussions are not public and only visible to validated members

Privacy & Group control

• Private conversation groups – on these pages all communications are restricted to group members – similar to Google+ “circles” or Diaspora “aspects”
• Visual group editor to manage the members of private conversation groups
• All items controlled by access lists (individuals and groups – allow and deny
• Individuals may belong to more than one group

Photo & Media Management

• Upload Manager
• Tagging of photos
• Privacy Support – defining access to photos across network nodes
• Location and other private information embedded in uploaded photos from cell phones is stripped

Event Calendar

• Create distributed Events with Date, Time, Location, Description
• React with an Attendance Action like accept, decline or unsure
• Birthday notifications – timezone corrected so that if you are in New York and I am in Moscow you won’t get the birthday greeting on the wrong day.
• Personal and shared events in calendar

Profiles & Multiple Profiles

• Create different profiles to present to different people/communities
• Private profiles with controlled visibility. You can maintain completely different personality profiles visible only to specific people.
• Multiple profiles for example:
  • Profile with your phone number and address for your friends and family
  • Profile for the rest of the world with you email address only
• Existing profiles may be cloned to create similar profiles which only differ in minor details
• Visual editor allows you to select which friends can view which profile
• Many profile information sections and categories
• Anonymous profile viewing (any of your content and/or profile information) can be disabled
• Publishing your profile to network directories (site and global) is individually controllable

Relationship Control

• Follow contacts all over the fediverse
• “Follow” RSS Feeds – Arbitrary websites and blogs may be imported into your social stream via RSS/Atom feeds
• Sites can restrict friendships based on protocol, email addresses, and DNS location
• Fan (one-way) relationships are fully supported
• Create community profiles for large special interest groups / Forums
• Automatic contact suggestions
• Any contact can be blocked completely or quietly “ignored”
• Match people based on interests in the friendica directory
• Suggest / recommend existing friends to other friends

Themes, Addons & Apps

• Different Themes (Frio, Vier, DuopuntoZero ..)
• Stylesheets / Schemes to change the default look of some Themes (dark, light, colorfull, etc)
• Addons – FromApp, ShowMore, etc
• Addons – Twitter, Tumblr, GNU Social, pump.io, libertree, Blogger, WordPress
• Supports ‘Apps’ which are third-party plugin applications such as games or utilities
• Email contacts and communications supported (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP
• OpenID Support
• Gravatar Support
• OExchange link sharing supported
• Portable Contacts Webstandard provides informationwiki. about friends between allowed sites using a standards-compliant format.
• OpenSearch provider interface for supported browser search engines

Mobile & Third Party clients

• Basic Twitter/GNU Social API provides easy access from a growing number of mobile and third party applications (Twidere, AndStatus, Bitlbee, Choqok, Frentcl, Gwibber, Hotot, IdentiCurse, Pidgin/Purple, Mustard, Pino, TTYtter, and more)
• Clients for Android, SailfishOS and Windows

System & Administration

• Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership
• Member directory, that respects all your individual privacy settings
• Administration interface with site settings, addon administration, log file management and member management
• Public Community page as a site representation provides recent public posts from across the site (respects all privacy controls)
• Server-to-server encryption Support
• Optionally “expire” old content after a certain period of time. The content is also removed from all other Friendica servers which might be holding a copy
• Language selector (or automatic detection) with a growing list of supported translations
• Message queuing and redelivery for reliable communications
• Built-in Help and Documentation

System Requirements

• Platform: PHP7+ / MySQL / Apache / nginx
• License: AGPL3
• Cost: FREE

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Friendica Directory

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