diaspora*
Diaspora is a federated social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative to Facebook . Share what you want, with whom you want.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Ruby
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Decentralized
- Federated
- Encrypted Connection
- Distributed
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
Support for ActivityPub- Fediverse
- Self-hosted
- Support for MarkDown
diaspora* News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is diaspora*?
Diaspora is a federated 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.
It is based on 
Ruby , 
Ruby on Rails
diaspora* information
Developed by
The diaspora* Project Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
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Comments and Reviews
Diaspora* main strength over Minds.com is that Diaspora* is really fully decentralized (distributed and federated). Compare to Minds which is NOT yet fully decentralized. Open source code is not to be confuse with decentralized.
By decentralized ("distributed" and "federated") I mean with Minds everyone’s data is being stored into ONE huge CENTRAL servers owned by a ONE large organization. Compare to Diaspora* which stores everyone’s data on MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT servers (“pods”) all over the world. You simply choose which pod to register with, and you can then connect seamlessly with the diaspora* community worldwide. Thus Diaspora is much safer and more robust.
For those not familiar with Diaspora* you can read more on this Wikipedia article
Read more about Diaspora* decentralization at https://diasporafoundation.org/about
Try Diaspora* for free at https://diasporafoundation.org
Many Diaspora Pods died :( Like www.joindiaspora.com
NOT free! :( Diaspora Germany https://diasp.de/users/sign_up we charge 1€ per month for Diaspora (and that's it). Konto erstellen 7 days free trial. Cancel at any time. Yearly payment processed securely with bank-level SSL.
Reminds me of the MySpace Days.
I created an account and before I'd even entered any information into my profile I got a message asking for money. Nowhere on any of the websites recommending Diaspora does it mention that you are expected to pay to use it. I deleted my account immediately - descriptions need to be updated so that people don't join and then find they also have to pay.
The main idea to share with who you want and make groups from starts, with "aspects" , after years, the way is distributed, simple and clean layout makes this social one of the top. It's years that exist and with low numbers of followers, because it has no marketing. I will promote as far as I can.
Free distribution of content without censorship.
Good concept, but some functions still needed: