Diaspora, the open social network project that gained popularity and raised over $200,000 from Facebook Privacy backlash, announced that it is releasing the dource code for Diaspora for developers. Diaspora said
This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control. From now on we will be working closely with the community on improving and solidifying Diaspora.
Here is the list of features in the current version of Diaspora.
- Share status messages and photos privately and in near real time with your friends through “aspects”.
- Friend people across the Internet no matter where Diaspora seed is located.
- Manage friends using “aspects”
- Upload of photos and albums
- All traffic is signed and encrypted (except photos, for now).
Diaspora said it is working on
- Facebook Integration
- Internationalization
- Data Portability
Source code of Diaspora is available at github and here is the first look at the Diaspora.
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