friendica
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PHP2013–2015
friendica / red
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The Red Matrix
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Observed mentions: 2013-08-27 07:17:53 UTC to 2015-02-05 15:53:45 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesARara4n·Feb 5, 2015
There is no link between RedMatrix and Matrix.org - the fact that both have Matrix in the name is total coincidence. On the Matrix.org side, we came across RedMatrix for the first time a few months ago when stumbling across http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May... in Google, which then linked from Friendica/Red to RedMatrix.
I've never played with Friendica/Red/RedMatrix/Zot, but from what I can see, it's more about federated blogging/social networking than messaging or pure JSON synchronisation like Matrix. Architecturally I'm not sure how they compare - I only just found https://github.com/friendica/red/wiki/zot; we'll have a read and see what the difference is.
Something we're very keen to do with Matrix.org is to build as many gateways and bridges through to other comms ecosystems as possible - so the fact tha
t both Matrix.org & RedMatrix (& Diaspora & Identi.ca & all the others) are operating in a similar space isn't at all a problem - so long as they all talk to each other. It'd be a bit embarrassing if we were building federated communication systems which couldn't gateway to each other!
If you're running a business and you want an internal social network then you're far better off installing redmatrix.
https://github.com/friendica/red
It's easy to deploy and you can do things such as end to end encryption, and there are many sharing/privacy options.
If you install some version of Facebook then chances are they'll try to find some way to exfiltrate or monetise your company data. Also, if you're not a US company then 100% of everything you enter into Facebook is regarded as fair game to be exfiltrated, stored, analysed, etc. Probably that's not in your best interests.
In Facebook Unveils Facebook at WorkThis seems possibly relevant: https://github.com/friendica/red
From the README: It consists of an open source webapp providing a complete multi-user decentralised publishing, sharing, and communications system - known as a "hub".
In Decentralize All the Things> I wish I didn't have to use Facebook.
Your wish can still come true have you tried friendica? Of course the project never got hyped at all no one gave enough money to them but It has almost all features including the federation. After proving himself ones the author of software Mike McGravin has moved on to create much more stable scalable Red#
[1] http://github.com/friendica/friendica/
[2] http://github.com/friendica/red
I always feel bad when Diaspora gets hyped and real valuable project like friendica doesn't get any credits :(
In Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project