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Okay, so you've seen a lot of mention from me about friendica these past few days.

So, Tony, what is Friendica of which you speak?

friendica is a new social network, but different from your facebook, G+, and others. Friendica is decentralized and federated, meaning, that it is not centralized in one site and owned by some corporation. It is user owned/operated, and on many sites. Anyone with a server and the know-how can install the software and run a friendica site (like anyone can install wordpress, or livejournal, or joomla, etc., and like those platforms, friendica is free/open source software, to which I have contributed some tidbits of code!), but the sites are all connected, in that, persons on one friendica site can add contacts from another friendica site, and interact, just as if they were on the same site. Friendica members can also add people from non-friendica sites, such as diaspora, status.net, identi.ca. Friendica members can follow their twitter contacts and facebook contacts. From friendica, you and crosspost your posts to facebook, twitter, statusnet, identi.ca, posterous, dreamwidth, livejournal, tumblr, and other sites (as you've seen me do these past couple of days). You can follow rss feeds from anywhere...Friendica can be sort of a social networking aggregator.
Also, there are no advertisements on friendica. There is no tracking. YOU own your own content, there being no abusive ToS that forces you to grant the site rights to your stuff (photos, posts, etc.). Friendica respects the user, doesn't collect your information and sell it to anyone. And friendica gives you complete control over who can view your content, allowing you to determine your own privacy.

Friendica is, IMHO, the future of social networking on the internet.

It is truly a FREE social network, both as in "no cost" and as in "freedom".

If you'd like to try it out, I invite my friends to join on my friendica site: Free-Haven.org.

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Set your #IRC plugin to join any channel(s) you wish by editing line 40 of the irc.php. You can have a comma-separated list.



Here, mine now joins #friendica and #free-haven



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I made one minor alteration.
Right under "IRC chat", and before the iframe, I added a link to a Beginner's Guide on Using IRC (on tldp.org, the Linux Documentation Project).

#irc #chat

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Friendica Freenode IRC Chat plugin
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So, just this morning I initiated transfer of free-haven.org from godaddy to mydomain.com, and that transfer has already been successful.
I just updated the DNS servers.
I already have the domain set up in my linode DNS manager, and have it set up in apache on my server, but the DNS stuff needs time to resolve.
When that is done, I will be installing friendica on that domain, in the top-level, and will shortly become tony@free-haven.org

This current install is in a subdir of a domain, which apparently can cause problems with some federation stuff.

And, doesn't "free-haven.org" sound like a great name for a friendica node, anyway?

Then I will have the experience of installing and configuring friendica twice. Because I'm cool like that.

#whoaretonybaldwin #moving #again

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Okay, kids, guess what?
I lumped the mibbit plugin, but I made something even better!
I made a Freenode IRC chat plugin, and it works!

Code is here: https://github.com/tonybaldwin/friendica-addons/blob/master/irc/irc.php

#friendica #irc #plugin

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