Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership.
Relationships can be made across any compatible system, creating a network of Internet scale made up of smaller sites.
Seamless wall-to-wall posts and remote comments, even across different network nodes.
Access lists for every item.
Private conversation groups — on these pages all communications are restricted to group members.
One-to-one private messaging on supported protocols.
Optionally "expire" old content after a certain period of time.
Download your personal data. It all belongs to you.
Built-in support for ActivityPub (e.g. Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed), OStatus (e.g. StatusNet, GNU social, Quitter) and diaspora* protocols.
Support for email contacts and communications (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP.
Import arbitrary websites and blogs into your social stream via RSS/Atom feeds.
Support for other services via plugins.
Keep in contact with people you care about.
Write your thoughts, edit them if you want. Comment, Like and Dislike posts from your contacts.
Share your holiday photos, but only with people you want.
Organize the next meeting of your reading group, or let everybody know about your cool party!
Like in real life, have a public profile and private aspects only for your closest friends. Or keep everything private!
Do you want to try Friendica but don't have the technical knowledge to install your server? You can create an account on one of the many servers out there which accept new users!
Friendica is free software and use free protocols.
Run your personal Friendica node on shared hosts.
Friendica runs on PHP with MySQL as a database. If you can run WordPress, you can run Friendica.
Extensible via third-party plugins and themes.
Add functionality, personalize the look and feel, connect to third-party services.
Be part of the network, host a Friendica server for you, your family and your friends!
Christian Pöschl from usd AG has found another XSS vulnerability in Friendica which is closed with this hotfix release of Friendica. In addition some other bugfixes for the distribution of forum postings and improvements to the update process of node information are included in this release. For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. […]
We are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica. Wrapping up the sprint from the 2022.10 release of Friendica we closed 73 filed issues and had almost 300 pull requests by 19 contributors. A special thanks goes out to Christian Pöschl from usd AG and Matthias Moritz who have […]
We are happy to announce the availability of the release candidate for the upcoming Friendica 2022.12 release, to focus on fixing existing bugs and smoothing out of rough edges.. Since October we have fixed around 40 filed tickets from the issue tracker, around 100 pull requests have been labeled as enhancements and 11 added new […]
It took a bit longer then expected, but we are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica the “Giant Rhubarb” 2022.10. Kudos to everyone who made this release possible by their contributions! In addition to fixing bugs and improving the performance of Friendica, the highlights of the changes since […]
We are happy to announce the availability of the release candidate for the upcoming Friendica 2022.09 release, to focus on fixing existing bugs and smoothing out of rough edges.. Since June we have fixed around 30 filed tickets from the issue tracker, around 70 pull requests have been labeled as enhancements. Among these the highlights […]