Diaspora - The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

[Jookia]

[img]http://images.gizmag.com/hero/diaspora-social-network.jpg[/img]

Do you like social networking sites having control over your information? Don't you love how you can't add or fix features on them?
If your answer to any of those is [b]no[/b], you may want to try Diaspora.

I'm really not good at writing content, but here's a list of things Diaspora offers:

- Decentralization
Rather than one server like Facebook or Google+, Diaspora is made of servers hosted by different people all over the world. You could even host one, if you're that scared of the Illuminati stealing your porn.

- Open Source
You can fix bugs and add features, like any gentleman would, to share and make the web a better place. (Also to get sweet respect.) Right now, some dudes decided to [url=http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/1750]make chatting exist[/url] for Diaspora, simply because they wanted to.

- Meet new people
In Diaspora you can use read tags, which helps you find new friends with the same interests. Facebook and Google+ seem to be more about adding people you already know.

- Nobody uses it yet
Diaspora is new to the Internet compared to Facebook and Google+, so the place is dominated mostly by programmers and linux users. You could join in and become a hipster too!

If that hasn't convinced you, nothing will. Or you can [url=http://podup.sargodarya.de/][b]join a Diaspora server[/b][/url]. Either way, discuss Diaspora here.

[B_I_G__C_U_M]

Huh. Never heard of this. Pretty neat.
Kinda sad that it'll never be as big as Facebook, and if it ever does (and it won't) it would die just like Google+.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;33113364]Huh. Never heard of this. Pretty neat.
Kinda sad that it'll never be as big as Facebook, and if it ever does (and it won't) it would die just like Google+.[/QUOTE]

It'll have a much longer life span, though as it's not held by a company that can easily fall. As long as somebody wants it to exist, they'll probably have a server up. Eventually you'll even be able to move your profile and content between servers, which can help this.

[BlkDucky]

This is what I think of whenever I hear about a new social network thing.

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png[/img]

Not exactly the same with these kinds of things since there's only really two standards: Facebook and Twitter, but regardless.

[itzspacy]

I signed up.

[MisterMooth]

This looks almost exactly like Google+

[url]http://i.imgur.com/554xX.png[/url]
[url]http://i.imgur.com/ULxS7.png[/url]

[thisispain]

[quote]I'm really not good at writing content, but here's a list of things Diaspora offers:

- Nobody uses it yet[/quote]

how is that a good thing?

if i do social networking and there's no-one i know there, what is the point?

[Arcana]

I wonder if there is an imaginary social network. Basically, it is just on your computer, but it has generated friends. Huh.

[Warnipple]

[QUOTE=Arcana;33114542]I wonder if there is an imaginary social network. Basically, it is just on your computer, but it has generated friends. Huh.[/QUOTE]

I'd use that. /forever alone

[Lazor]

the diaspora devs proved pretty early on they don't understand how to do security. not about to waste my time with this.

[mako_]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Mc3pk.jpg[/img]

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Lazor;33114937]the diaspora devs proved pretty early on they don't understand how to do security. not about to waste my time with this.[/QUOTE]

Are you going to elaborate on this?

[Loogaroo]

two words into google later....

[url]http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/[/url]
[url]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369339,00.asp[/url]
[url]http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/17/148242/security-concerns-paramount-after-early-reviews-of-diaspora-code[/url]

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=waxrock;33115528]two words into google later....

[url]http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/[/url]
[url]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369339,00.asp[/url]
[url]http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/17/148242/security-concerns-paramount-after-early-reviews-of-diaspora-code[/url][/QUOTE]

Wait.. People don't write completely bug-free code?

Also, that's from 2010. Tons of fixes have been pushed in to the codebase.