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From day one the question was how to build a federated/decentralised communication stack that respects all people and cultures - including those which have a different political bias; and allows them to all co-exist in the same space without killing each other. We've come up with lots of creative soutions to the thorniest of decentralisation problems over the intervening years.
I'll highlight the most important ones: we implement cross-domain granular permissions and cross-domain (nomadic) identity and cross-domain single sign-on. All of these work together to provide a social platform which is probably unlike any you have used before. It is fully decentralised, but provides many features that were previously only available from monolithic centralised systems; which is a huge distinction from most other fediverse projects.
I'll highlight the most important ones: we implement cross-domain granular permissions and cross-domain (nomadic) identity and cross-domain single sign-on. All of these work together to provide a social platform which is probably unlike any you have used before. It is fully decentralised, but provides many features that were previously only available from monolithic centralised systems; which is a huge distinction from other fediverse projects.
Permissions are your gate-keeper. This is how you free yourself from trolls and abuse and spam. You can also block those you don't wish to see, but you'll rarely (if ever) need to do so if you just have sensible permissions to begin with.
Nomadic identity gives you control of your own destiny. You can replicate your identity **and all your data** in near real-time to multiple service providers. If any provider goes offline, even for an hour; you are completely unaffected. If one of your providers cancels your account because they don't like your ethnic group or political belief, you are completely unaffected.
Single sign-on works with permissions to provide access to private media content and hidden conversations that your friends publish on their own sites.
Single sign-on works with permissions to provide access to private media content and hidden conversations that your friends publish on their own sites.
There are hundreds of other features available; but these are the defining features which have been constant since around 2012. At one point there were so many features that we couldn't manage them all, so we simplified. Now the interface is much more sleek and basic; and you can add apps from our free app store to unlock any advanced features you desire or require.
Since 2017, every branch of this repository evolved to support communications over ActivityPub, the current web standard for social communications. We even brought back some of the dead product branches to make sure they could support this protocol, in case somebody wanted to experiment with them in the future. This gives you immediate access to (currently) around 5 million people across (currently) around a hundred different software applications. There are Twitter clones and Facebook clones and Instagram clones and YouTube clones - and we can interact with all of them. In the interests of full disclosure, this project began life in 2010 as a decentralised Facebook alternative, but we've since turned it into something completely different and no longer care about emulating anybody or anything. We provide a social experience and privacy mechanisms you simply won't find elsewhere.
There are hundreds of other features available; but these are the defining features which have been constant for about the last decade. At one point there were so many features that we couldn't manage them all, so we simplified. Now the interface is much more sleek and basic; and you can add apps from our free app store to provide any advanced features you desire or require.
Since 2017, every branch of this repository evolved to support communications over ActivityPub, the current web standard for social communications. We even brought back some of the dead product branches to make sure they could support this protocol, in case somebody wanted to experiment with them in the future. This gives you immediate access to (currently) around 5 million people across (currently) around a hundred different software applications. There are Twitter clones and Facebook clones and Instagram clones and YouTube clones - and we can interact with all of them. In the interests of full disclosure, this project began life in 2010 as a decentralised Facebook alternative, but we've since turned it into something completely different and no longer care about emulating anybody or anything. We provide a social experience and privacy mechanisms you simply won't find elsewhere.
This software will install as a fediverse server using the LAMP stack. There are also containerised installations available. It is regularly maintained and updated and you are welcome to help - if you want. Many/most of our sites are privately run on small devices for family and friends and we don't know and don't care how many exist or how many "users" are on our systems. There are very few public sites. We spend a lot of effort providing a level playing field for all. You have the same features and abilities no matter how big (or small) your server is.
This work is dedicated and released to the public domain with no strings attached. Be advised that many others have contributed code to this repository under a number of different OSI-approved software licenses during its existence. This has no effect on any of your fundamental software freedoms; although corporate legal consultants who wish to re-appropriate our work for their employer's profit will likely find this lack of license clarity "troublesome". This is intentional.