Audience

Users interested in a decentralized social network

About friendica

friendica is a decentralized social network. 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.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 3.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5
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Company Information

friendica
Founded: 2010
friendi.ca

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friendica Product Features

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Advertising Management
Blogs
User Profiles
Group Management
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Activity / News Feed
Social Media Tagging
Event Management
Data Security
Media Library
Social Media Integration
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friendica Verified User Reviews

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  • Blaise H.
    Senior Staff Engineer
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
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    "Friendica: "Long Form" posts, and it's better than Facebook" Posted 2025-07-02

    Pros: Ability to interconnect with Bluesky, Mastodon, Wordpress, Diaspora, Nextcloud, Tumblr, and loads of other platforms for reading *or* posting
    Unlimited length posts (Within reason)
    Send posts as emails to folks who aren't on a connected form of social media.
    Read RSS feeds as posts in your timeline
    No advertising
    Being able to communicate with your admins
    Significantly alterable UI
    Shared and private calendars
    Personal notes on contacts
    Unique profiles to different people/groups
    As many unique identities as you want
    Multiple mobile apps
    Vast number of customization options
    Define any number of "circles" to generate topical newsfeeds.
    Does everything Facebook did when it was still fun and useful, plus a bunch of other useful stuff.

    Cons: Hard to identify the best instance to join
    Small user base
    No marketing
    Totally uninformative landing pages for anyone who hasn't joined an instance yet. You can't just see what the server is all about.

    Overall: No ads, all info I control, a different newsfeed whenever I want to take a moment to build one, and automatic crossposting to loads of other social networks. It's pretty great. It just needs people to come use it!

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