From ce11d0f0055b29eea397764cdb1961398df21a12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:09:20 -0800 Subject: upd8 readme --- README | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 25fff8279..3fd518011 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,78 +7,110 @@ http://friendika.com -Did you ever wonder what might happen if you ever left Facebook? + + Since the dawn of the world-wide-web, the internet has been a battleground +between the "big boys" with all their resources, and a bunch of upstarts whose +goal is to topple the status quo - and bring the same powers of global reach +to anybody with a computer and an internet connection. -What if there was a social network which provided some of the same interaction -you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and where your -privacy is always under your control? + The latest battleground is social networking. Many of your friends would +have you believe that the world (and all the information in it) belongs to +Facebook. -And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet, -and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in exchange for -selling your private information to advertisers)? + Friendika is here to rock that boat. -Look no further. + Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you +in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still +poking each other and managing their virtual farms. Would you miss them? -Friendika is a social network without boundaries. Friendika installations can -link together into a global social network which is free from central -control. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy enhanced]; you can -connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, Status.Net and many -other sites and social networks *today*. + I wouldn't. -We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many + You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell them +that the world has changed. It's time to move on. + + What if there was a social network which provided some of the same +interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and +where your privacy is always under your control? + + And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire +internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in +exchange for selling your private information to advertisers)? + + Look no further. + + Friendika is a social network without boundaries, and without ownership. +Friendika installations can link together into a global social network which +is free from central control. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy +enhanced]; you can also connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, +Status.Net and many other sites and social networks *today*. + + Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika, +you can choose any of 20-30 other providers of social networking software and +still be a part of this new social network. This is bigger than Facebook. + + Much bigger. + + We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many other open social networks and providers - like Diaspora, GNU-Social, OneSocialWeb, and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and Twitter. -Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to -become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle. + Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start +to become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle. -Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to + Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to you - and are only meant to be shared with those you wish to share them with. -Period. - -Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy settings -are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships rarely are -(straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with drinking -buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is only able to -see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a private message to -your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade encryption. - -Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering a -feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is vapour -and vague promises. Friendika delivers the goods, time and time again. - -A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to + Period. + + Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy +settings are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships +rarely are (straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with +drinking buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is +only able to see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a +private message to your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade +encryption. We also won't share it with advertisers. + + Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering +a feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is +vapour and vague promises. You've probably heard about the four guys in New +York and their "Facebook killer". What a disaster that was. Eventually they +may get it right and release something that actually works, but they may not. +What are you going to use in the meantime? + + Friendika delivers. + + A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links, status updates, etc. -But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. + But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations. -Every person on Friendika has unlimited profiles available to them. There is a -"public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be -tailored to specific groups or individuals. + Every person on Friendika has unlimited profiles available to them. There +is a "public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be +tailored to specific groups or individuals. Try doing that on Twitter. -Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your + Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your conversations with one group of friends is completely isolated from other friends or groups of friends. -You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest groups, -and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that require -the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika provides for automatic + You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest +groups, and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that +require the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika provides for automatic relationship management in these extreme cases so that you can concentrate on your message and public persona - and not worry about being swamped by friend requests. You can even maintain private social contact with your closest friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface. -No other social network offers this ability. + No other social network offers this ability. + + Join us. -IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL.txt for system requirements. -- cgit v1.2.3 From edc7a920dd5a14ceb856cf6d109598396a419477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:45:25 -0800 Subject: more upd8 --- README | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 3fd518011..d01cf7a32 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ encryption. We also won't share it with advertisers. a feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is vapour and vague promises. You've probably heard about the four guys in New York and their "Facebook killer". What a disaster that was. Eventually they -may get it right and release something that actually works, but they may not. +may get it right and release something that actually works (and lets you do +something besides drag your friends into categories), but they may not. What are you going to use in the meantime? - Friendika delivers. + Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications +interface you can make use of *right now*. A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these -- cgit v1.2.3 From 710f024de31246908d90513a6d4de29bca935989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:43:33 -0800 Subject: upd8 --- README | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index d01cf7a32..7ab4251c0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ Facebook. Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still -poking each other and managing their virtual farms. Would you miss them? +"poking" each other and managing their virtual farms and telling you all about +their virtual gangwars. +Would you miss them? I wouldn't. -- cgit v1.2.3 From bf60ec070bb5af0eb1d37772cfdacda4f9c39a19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:31:38 -0800 Subject: more upd8s --- README | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7ab4251c0..cd9738e67 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ Facebook. Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still "poking" each other and managing their virtual farms and telling you all about -their virtual gangwars. -Would you miss them? +their virtual gang wars. Would you miss them? I wouldn't. @@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ Would you miss them? that the world has changed. It's time to move on. What if there was a social network which provided some of the same -interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source - and +interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source, *and* where your privacy is always under your control? And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire @@ -82,8 +81,15 @@ something besides drag your friends into categories), but they may not. What are you going to use in the meantime? Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications -interface you can make use of *right now*. - +interface you can make use of *right now*. + + And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature, +you couldn't be further from the truth. We like the conversational style +because it feels natural, and that's why Facebook grew to be what it is today. +But we're creating something completely different. + + Something better. + A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends -- cgit v1.2.3 From a8aba766bd0d2e0119ef144ccd654011231bf9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:57:47 -0800 Subject: upd8s --- README | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index cd9738e67..9ccb645b7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -19,35 +19,44 @@ Facebook. Friendika is here to rock that boat. - Granted, all your friends aren't here. Yet. The people who made fun of you + Granted, all your friends aren't here - yet. The people who made fun of you in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still "poking" each other and managing their virtual farms and telling you all about their virtual gang wars. Would you miss them? I wouldn't. - You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell them -that the world has changed. It's time to move on. + You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell those +friends that the world has changed - because it has. It's time to move on. A +year ago, if you had left Facebook, there was no place to go - at least a +place which offered the same kind of social interaction (and wasn't just +another huge company trying to make money off of all of your private +information). + + Today you have options. What if there was a social network which provided some of the same -interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, open source, *and* -where your privacy is always under your control? +interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was open source, +*and* where your privacy is always under your control? And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in -exchange for selling your private information to advertisers)? +exchange for selling your private information - and everything else they can +find out about you from logging all of your online activities and +conversations)? Look no further. Friendika is a social network without boundaries, and without ownership. Friendika installations can link together into a global social network which -is free from central control. Besides the Friendika network [which is privacy -enhanced]; you can also connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, +is free from central control. Besides the Friendika network (which is privacy +enhanced); you can also connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca, Status.Net and many other sites and social networks *today*. - Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika, -you can choose any of 20-30 other providers of social networking software and -still be a part of this new social network. This is bigger than Facebook. + Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika +(though we think you'd be foolish not to), you can choose any of 20-30 other +providers of federated social networking software and still be a part of this +vast new social network. This is going to be bigger than Facebook. Much bigger. @@ -83,7 +92,7 @@ What are you going to use in the meantime? Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications interface you can make use of *right now*. - And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature, + And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature, you couldn't be further from the truth. We like the conversational style because it feels natural, and that's why Facebook grew to be what it is today. But we're creating something completely different. @@ -120,7 +129,20 @@ friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface. No other social network offers this ability. - Join us. + + Join us. + + ******************* + Friendika Demo Site + ******************* + + http://demo.friendika.com + + ******************* + Friendika Downloads + ******************* + + http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master -- cgit v1.2.3 From bcc7d885666d3c193b524e681db4ae8861e881a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:03:44 -0800 Subject: strip tabs --- README | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 9ccb645b7..49fa417fc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface. Join us. - ******************* + ******************* Friendika Demo Site ******************* -- cgit v1.2.3 From f632a4a53ac5da48c5ed6ee08f05c4d847029698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:13:49 -0800 Subject: yeah in the garage on an old PC too. --- README | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 49fa417fc..d36c37ee4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -100,10 +100,11 @@ But we're creating something completely different. Something better. A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to -several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these -people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends -and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share -photos, links, status updates, etc. +several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. You could even run +Friendika on an old PC in your closet or garage. Each of these people are able +to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends and associates +on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links, +status updates, etc. But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support -- cgit v1.2.3 From fd71d194636c0ebdf612597f56ae70fe79aecf9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:22:34 -0800 Subject: upd8 --- README | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index d36c37ee4..7b9a51dea 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -79,15 +79,12 @@ rarely are (straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with drinking buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is only able to see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a private message to your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade -encryption. We also won't share it with advertisers. +encryption. Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering a feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is -vapour and vague promises. You've probably heard about the four guys in New -York and their "Facebook killer". What a disaster that was. Eventually they -may get it right and release something that actually works (and lets you do -something besides drag your friends into categories), but they may not. -What are you going to use in the meantime? +vapour and vague promises. Things like "Private mail will be in the next +release". Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications interface you can make use of *right now*. @@ -106,8 +103,8 @@ to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links, status updates, etc. - But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. -Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support + But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... and that's OK +too. Friendika may be closed off from the global community and used to support social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations. -- cgit v1.2.3 From d8985b3a548422dca8a8d659f4c66975366818df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friendika Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:12:31 -0800 Subject: try to auto-fill the profile address if we actually do know it. --- README | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7b9a51dea..e5c5e02d6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was open source, And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in -exchange for selling your private information - and everything else they can -find out about you from logging all of your online activities and +exchange for selling your private information; and everything else they can +find out about you - from logging all of your online activities and conversations)? Look no further. -- cgit v1.2.3