friendica [Friendica 2024.12 released](https://friendi.ca/2025/01/01/friendica-2024-12-released/)
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A Decentralized Social Network
[Try It!](#try)
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.
### Posts
Write your thoughts, edit them if you want. Comment, Like and Dislike posts from your contacts.
### Photos
Share your holiday photos, but only with people you want.
### Events
Organize the next meeting of your reading group, or let everybody know about your cool party!
### Profiles
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!
[Have a look at the list of public servers](https://dir.friendica.social/servers)
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.
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We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard. The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 are For details, please see the CHANGELOG file in the repository. What is Friendica \[…\]
38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Devroom. Friendica – under the radar since 2010 is scheduled for \[…\]
The development cycle for the 2024.09 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2024.09 release candid branch. 2024.09-rc contains all the features of the stable release and is meant to test the new features, find some last rough edges and smooth out the path to the \[…\]
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The Berlin Fediverse Day is a conference about the free social network “Fediverse” organized by members of the Berlin Fediverse get-together at c-base. It is aimed at people interested in alternatives to X, Instagram, Facebook and so on; but also at institutions, universities, media, NGOs, political actors and companies who want to exchange information in \[…\]
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their \[…\]
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* [About](https://friendi.ca/about/)
* [Screenshots](https://friendi.ca/about/screenshots/)
* [Features](https://friendi.ca/about/features/)
* [Requirements](https://friendi.ca/resources/requirements/)
* [Wiki](https://wiki.friendi.ca)
* [Community](https://friendi.ca/resources/community/)
* [Use it](https://friendi.ca/resources/use-it/)
* [Find a server](https://friendi.ca/resources/find-a-server/)
* [First steps](https://friendi.ca/resources/first-steps/)
* [Find other people](http://dir.friendica.social/)
* [Install your own server](https://friendi.ca/resources/installation/)
* [Mobile Clients](https://friendi.ca/resources/mobile-clients/)
* [Download files](https://friendi.ca/resources/download-files/)
* [Contribute](https://friendi.ca/resources/contribute/)
* [GitHub](https://github.com/friendica/friendica)
* [Issues](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues)
* [Translate](http://www.transifex.com/projects/p/friendica/)
* [Addons](https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons)
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