Assignment Number Eight: Friendica

Group 3: Tami Bullard, Jesse Ijomah, Danniel Ismail, Benjamin Manzer, & William Schell

View the site here. Friendica logo

For this assignment, I worked with my group members to figure out how to download and use Friendi.ca. Friendica is known as a "decentralized social network". This is an open source software for building, or adding on to a social network site The main focus of Friendica would be privacy settings and easy installation on personal servers. This is not run by a corporation; it is just a variety of volunteer developers to create this website.

Here is a list of pros we discussed about Friendica:

"I like the name."- Benjamin
People can connect using either a Friendica server or their other contacts from a variety of other social media platforms
Most familiar social media aspects are available: Contact a group/single person by "@username"; direct messages; hashtags; albums; "likes"/"dislikes" and more.
Users can also have a variety of profiles, allowing groups of people to have their own pages

Here is a list of cons we discussed about Friendica:

They don't tell you how to set up the database.
Need to have your own domain
Takes forever to unzip the file
Installation on shared hosting is potentially challenging because of missing PHP5 Modules

Assignment Number Eight: Friendica

Here is a list of pros we discussed about Friendica:

Here is a list of cons we discussed about Friendica:

Source: Friendica Wikipedia