Diaspora is a
decentralized social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative
to Facebook. Share what you want, with whom you want. Diaspora lets you sort
your connections into groups called aspects. Unique to Diaspora, aspects ensure
that your photos, stories and jokes are shared only with the people you intend.
Diaspora makes sharing clean and easy – and this goes for privacy too.
Inherently private, Diaspora doesn’t make you wade through pages of settings
and options just to keep your profile secure.
In more words, Diaspora can be characterized by 5 main
features:
* Decentralization
Instead of everyone’s data being contained on huge
central servers owned by a large organization, local servers (“pods”) can be
set up anywhere in the world. You choose which pod to register with - perhaps
your local pod - and seamlessly connect with the diaspora* community worldwide.
* Freedom
You can be whoever you want to be in diaspora. Unlike
some networks, you don’t have to use your real identity. You can interact with
whomever you choose in whatever way you want. The only limit is your
imagination. diaspora is also Free Software, giving you liberty to use it as
you wish.
* Privacy
In diaspora you own your data. You do not sign over any
rights to a corporation or other interest who could use it. With diaspora, your
friends, your habits, and your content is your business ... not ours! In
addition, you choose who sees what you share, using Aspects. Actually, diaspora
pioneered the concept of aspects, which means you can organize your contacts
according to their role in your life. This means you can share something just
with family members or work colleagues, knowing that no one you don’t want to
will be able to see what you post.
* Convenience
Hashtags give you the freedom to label and follow your
interests with ease. You can catch people’s attention by @mentioning them. Re-share
posts you love so others can enjoy and comment on them too. And show your love
for other people’s work by loving it.
* Integration with
other Social Networks
You may use diaspora as your home base to post to your
profiles on other major social services. This way your friends will still be
able to keep in touch with what you’re up to, even if they’re not yet on
diaspora. Diaspora currently supports cross-posting to your Facebook, Twitter,
and Tumblr accounts, with more to come.
The Diaspora social network is constructed of a network
of nodes, or pods, hosted by many different individuals and institutions. Each
node operates a copy of the Diaspora software acting as a personal web server.
Users of the network can host a pod on their own server or create an account on
any existing pod of their choice, and from that pod can interact with other
users on all other pods.
Diaspora was nominated for "Best Social
Network" in the 2011 Mashable.com Awards.
Website: https://diasporafoundation.org/
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