Diaspora Social Network
A Diaspora Social Network is a Decentralized Social Network that is a user-owned nonprofit distributed social network consisting of a group of independently owned nodes called pods.
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- See: Centralized Online Social Network, Centralized Computing System, Decentralized Application (DApp), Decentralized Cloud System, Decentralized Clinical Trial, Decentralized Research, Decentralized Digital Currency, Software Freedom Law Center, Social Networking, GNU Affero General Public License, Ruby on Rails, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, GNU General Public License, Eben Moglen.
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2021a
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) Retrieved:2021-10-16.
- Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising. According to its developer, "our distributed design means no big corporation will ever control Diaspora."
The project was founded by Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The group received crowdfunding in excess of 200,000 via Kickstarter. A consumer alpha version was released on 23 November 2010.
Diaspora software is licensed under the terms of GNU-AGPL-3.0. Its development is managed by the Diaspora Foundation, which is part of the Free Software Support Network (FSSN). The FSSN is in turn run by Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center. The FSSN acts as an umbrella organization to Diaspora development and manages Diaspora's branding, finances and legal assets.
- Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising. According to its developer, "our distributed design means no big corporation will ever control Diaspora."
2021b
- (Diaspora, 2021) ⇒ https://diasporafoundation.org/about#host Retrieved:2021-10-16.
- QUOTE: Even though diaspora* is made up of many pods all over the world, you will experience it as one integrated network. You don’t need to be on the same pod as your contacts in order to communicate freely with each other - communication happens seamlessly across all the pods in the diaspora* universe. When you’re using diaspora*, you can easily forget that it’s actually made up of many pods.