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# Nextcloud Social
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**🎉 Nextcloud becomes part of the federated social networks!**
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The app is in alpha stage, so it’ get involved! 👩💻 ](https://github.com/nextcloud/social#development-setup )
Some requirements in this alpha stage are that your Nextcloud:
- must use a real SSL certificate
- must be accessible from the internet
- must run on the default port
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Mockup:
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- **🙋 Find your friends:** No matter if they use Nextcloud, [🐘 Mastodon ](https://joinmastodon.org ), [🇫 Friendica ](https://friendi.ca ), and soon [✱ Diaspora ](https://joindiaspora.com ), [👹 MediaGoblin ](https://www.mediagoblin.org ) and more – you can follow them!
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- **📜 Profile info:** No need to fill out more profiles – your info from Nextcloud will be used and extended.
- **👐 Own your posts:** Everything you post stays on your Nextcloud!
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- **🕸 Open standards:** We use the established [ActivityPub ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub ) standard!
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## Development setup
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1. ☁ Clone the app into the `apps` folder of your Nextcloud: `git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/social.git`
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2. 👩💻 Run `make dev-setup` to install the dependencies
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3. 🏗 To build the Javascript whenever you make changes, run `make build-js`
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4. ✅ Enable the app through the app management of your Nextcloud
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5. 🎉 Partytime! Help fix [some issues ](https://github.com/nextcloud/social/issues ) and [review pull requests ](https://github.com/nextcloud/social/pulls ) 👍
