FRIENDIKA
https://friendika.aphasi.cc

What if there was a social network which was free to use, open source – and where your privacy is always under your control?
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. 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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 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.

Website: http://friendika.com

STATUS.NET
https://statusnet.aphasi.cc

StatusNet (formerly Laconica) is a FLOSS microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, StatusNet seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data.
Version 0.9.0, released March 3, 2010, added support for OStatus, a new distributed update standard superseding OpenMicroBlogging.

GNU.SOCIAL
https://gnusocial.aphasi.cc

The idea behind social was to make it easy to connect with all the people in your life, but without giving up control of your relationships.
If you’re using Facebook, and one day you decide to stop, or another service comes along (Remember MySpace? Friendster? Orkut?) — any and all contacts you have cannot be exported. All your friends go away, and you have to find people again.
We think this is a bad idea.
Bad for you, and bad for society.

The idea:
Start simple, start with status updates like Twitter and Facebook already allow, and start getting people to begin updating their profiles from something they can control:
Once you’re comfortable and on-board with this, let’s take your ideas, suggestions and feedback, and build the social networking software that we all want, and can all use.

What we offer:

  • Let’s make that software available to everyone in the world, so instead of having one big company in California with all of our secrets, we can rely on friends and family, or even run our own personal networks.
  • Let’s build the escape rope in to all these networks, so people are always able to pick up and leave whenever they feel like it, leaving a forwarding address if they choose.
  • Let’s make changing your social network a little more like moving house and a little less like starting again without friends or contacts in a foreign city.

You and us:

Who are we? We’re a ragtail group of artists and geeks working to bring this to you.
You don’t have to trust us with your personal information, and in fact, we’d rather you didn’t.
We’d like you to join us and be a part of a revolution in the way people share and socialize on the web.

Let’s make the World Wide Web into the Social Web.
Make it better:
Anyone reading this, regardless of your ability to program computers or make things look pretty can help make this software better.
You can tell us what you like, what you hate, how things should be different, and what features you’d like to see next.

We’ll take the time to listen to you.

Website: http://daisycha.in/

DIASPORA
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Choice
Diaspora lets you sort your connections into groups called aspects. Unique to Diaspora, aspects ensure that your photos, stories and jokes are shared only with the people you intend.

Ownership
You own your pictures, and you shouldn’t have to give that up just to share them. You maintain ownership of everything you share on Diaspora, giving you full control over how it’s distributed.

Simplicity
Diaspora makes sharing clean and easy – and this goes for privacy too. Inherently private, Diaspora doesn’t make you wade through pages of settings and options just to keep your profile secure.

Website: http://joindiaspora.com

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