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Decentralized social network linking you across the Fediverse
Friendica is a self‑hosted social platform that federates with Mastodon, Diaspora, Misskey, and many others, letting you share, import, and control privacy across the Fediverse.
Friendica is a self‑hosted social communication platform that joins the Fediverse, allowing users to interact with accounts on Mastodon, Pleroma, Diaspora, Misskey, Peertube, Pixelfed and many others through standard federation protocols.
It aggregates content from external sources such as Tumblr, WordPress and RSS feeds, and supports add‑ons like IFTTT and Buffer for mirroring posts. Fine‑grained privacy settings let you define the audience for each update, keeping your data out of corporate harvesting.
Built with PHP and MariaDB, Friendica can be installed on typical LAMP stacks or deployed via Docker for quick provisioning. The platform is released under AGPL‑3.0 and benefits from an active community that contributes plugins, themes, and regular security updates. Extensible through a rich plugin ecosystem, you can tailor the look with themes like Frio and add functionality to suit personal or organizational needs.
Personal social hub
Consolidate Mastodon, Tumblr, and RSS feeds into one timeline, staying connected without juggling multiple accounts.
Community forum
Host a self‑run discussion space that federates with other Fediverse groups, enabling cross‑platform conversation while retaining moderation control.
Non‑profit outreach
Mirror blog posts to social feeds via IFTTT/Buffer, amplifying content without manual reposting.
Privacy‑focused networking
Share posts with custom audience scopes, maintaining control over who sees each update.
Friendica works with ActivityPub, Diaspora, OStatus and other common Fediverse protocols, enabling interaction with Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, Peertube, Pixelfed and more.
Yes, Friendica can pull content from WordPress, Tumblr and RSS feeds, allowing you to migrate or mirror your existing posts.
Friendica provides a responsive web interface for mobile browsers; there is no dedicated native app at this time.
A typical LAMP stack (PHP 7.4+, MariaDB/MySQL) or Docker environment is sufficient; recommended at least 1 GB RAM for moderate traffic.
Data resides on your own server under the AGPL‑3.0 license, giving you full ownership and the ability to configure privacy settings per post.
Project at a glance
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