What if social networks were more like email? What if they were all inter-connected, and you could choose which software (and even which provider) to use based purely on what they offered you?

Now they are! Friendica is bringing them all together.

All of these can be included in your Friendica "social stream" where you may interact with them using a familiar conversational interface - and perhaps arrange them into private conversation groups. This lets you easily separate what posts can be seen by your co-workers and your beer-drinking buddies.

Note: Two-way and private communications are not yet available on all networks, and in a few cases these abilities are not possible due to limitations in the underlying communications formats.

You wouldn't have to give up any of your existing friends. You could just use software that offered the possibility of better privacy and the best features.

But wait, there's more...

Friendica is also the most technically advanced and feature-rich decentralised Facebook alternative currently available for the indie web. Friendica doesn't require that you use any other services for social communication. We provide fully distributed communications protocols ("DFRN" and "Zot!") for securely sharing with your friends across the internet. These have all the privacy and communication features you expect, military-grade message encryption, and more. This network is infinitely scalable, and nobody can ever own it. They're your photos. Your posts - to be shared with who you wish and only with those you wish.

Friendica is decentralised, open source, secure, private, modular, extensible, unincorporated, and federated.

Oh, and Friendica is free. Free as in beer, free as in freedom, free as in "no strings attached", free as in - well, free.

You want more reasons? (We've got lots of them.)

Perhaps you'd like to see a screenshot?

Friendica connects you with more people and websites than any other social network that ever existed.

Test-drive Friendica now!

Then join up on a friend's site.

Your friends aren't here yet? Join a public Friendica site...

... or do the coolest thing of all: host your own! It's easy!