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Diaspora
Developer(s)the Diaspora team
Repository
Written inRuby[1]
TypeSocial network service
LicenseaGPL[2]
Websitejoindiaspora.com

Diaspora (also Diaspora*) is open-source personal web server[2] software intended to provide a distributed social networking service, a decentralized alternative to Facebook. It is currently under development by Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy,[3] and will be released in September 2010.[1][needs update]

The project's intent is to provide the ability to have "the little games, the little walls, the little chat" that a Facebook user's experience currently provides, but instead hosted on users' personal web servers (called "seeds") so that users can "fully control the information they share."[3]

Users will share pictures and videos securely via GPG,[2] and Diaspora software will allow services to optionally interact, so that a photograph uploaded to an image hosting service (e.g., Flickr) might automatically generate an update to a microblogging service (e.g., Twitter).[4] The software will incorporate OpenID, VoIP, distributed encrypted backups, an instant messaging protocol, and UDP.[5]

The project was announced on April 24, 2010 on Kickstarter and reached its initial $10,000 fundraising goal in 12 days.[3] In the weeks that followed, it raised $200,642 from 6479 backers, making it the most successful Kickstarter project to date.[2] One of the contributors was Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive officer of Facebook, who called it a "cool idea".[6]

The group was inspired to create Diaspora by a February 5, 2010 speech by Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen to the Internet Society, "Freedom in the Cloud", in which Moglen described centralized social networks as "spying for free."[3][7]

After its foundation is completed, Diaspora's developers intend to concentrate on creating a "battery of add-on modules" in order to "facilitate any type of communication", and plan to offer a paid hosting service for Diaspora seeds.[2][5]

References

  1. ^ a b Vernon, Amy (2010-05-12). "Striking back at Facebook, the open-source way". Network World. International Data Group. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Salzberg, Maxwell. "Decentralize the web with Diaspora — Kickstarter". Kickstarter. Retrieved 13 May 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c d Dwyer, Jim (2010-05-11). "Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook". New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  4. ^ Salzberg, Maxwell (2010-04-21). "A Little More About The Project". Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  5. ^ a b "join diaspora — the project". Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  6. ^ Singel, Ryan (2010-05-28). "Epicenter: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor". Wired News. Condé Nast Publishing. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  7. ^ "YouTube — Eben Moglen — Freedom in The Cloud". 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2010-05-12.



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