Friendica

**Friendica**
Original author(s)	Mike Macgirvin
Developer(s)	Friendica development team
Initial release	January 11, 2012 (2.37)
Stable release	2023.12 (December 24, 2023; 3 months ago) [±]
Preview release	none [±]
Written in	JavaScript, PHP
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multi-lingual
Type	Social networking software,; Personal information management software
License(s)	MIT
Website	Friendica.com

Friendica is free open-source social web server software.

Product history

Friendica began in July 2010 as "Mistpark," a decentralized social networking platform developed by Mike Macgirvin.^[2] Not long after Macgirvin changed the name to "Friendika," citing "no easy way to distill the concept [of Mistpark] into something memorable and also tie it to its purpose - that of social communications."^[2] Development continued on Friendika until a disagreement arose about perceived limitations in the GNU General Public License (GPL). On September 25, 2011, Macgirvin announced he had forked the project and named the new fork "Free-Friendika," to be provided under the MIT license.^[3] On October 29, 2011, the development team of Friendika publicly announced it would be changing its name to "Friendica" as "the original spelling was turning out to be detrimental to our project and mission."^[4] The first public release under the "Friendica" name occurred on January 11, 2012 as version 2.37.^[1]

Features

The main features of Friendica include^[5]:

decentralized architecture
administrator interface
multi-lingual
extensibility
app support
military-grade message encryption
private conversations
private profiles
anonymous viewing
status updates of unlimited length
post-published edit support
events support
photo support
federation and protocol support
relationship management

Hardware/software requirements

While client-side software can be installed on multiple platforms, server-side software installations are currently only supported on Linux-based systems.

Installation requirements for conjoon include:

Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "Options All" so you can use a local .htaccess file
PHP 5.2 or greater; PHP 5.3 is required for communications with the Diaspora network and improved security
MySQL 5.x or greater

Consult the installation guide for more of the fine details.