{"id":13,"date":"2015-01-15T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-02-10T07:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T07:29:32","slug":"alternatives-decentraliced-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives: Decentralized social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/diasporafoundation.org\/\">Diaspora*<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0<b>Diaspora<\/b> (currently styled <b>diaspora*<\/b> and formerly styled <b>DIASPORA*<\/b>) is a <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nonprofit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonprofit\">nonprofit<\/a>, user-owned, <a title=\"Distributed social network\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distributed_social_network\">distributed social network<\/a> that is based upon the <a title=\"Free software\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_software\">free<\/a> <a title=\"Diaspora (software)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diaspora_%28software%29\">Diaspora software<\/a>. Diaspora consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called <i>pods<\/i>) which interoperate to form the network. As of March 2014, there are more than <span class=\"nowrap\">1 million<\/span> Diaspora accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/friendica.com\/\">Friendica<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0<b>Friendica<\/b> (formerly known as <b>Friendika<\/b>) is <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Open source software\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source_software\">open source software<\/a> that implements a <a title=\"Distributed social network\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distributed_social_network\">distributed social network<\/a>. Before it became <b>Friendika<\/b>, the project started initially as Mistpark, developed by <a class=\"new\" title=\"Mike Macgirvin (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Mike_Macgirvin&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Mike Macgirvin<\/a>,<sup class=\"noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\"><span title=\"Reliable source needed for the whole sentence. (November 2012)\">citation needed<\/span><\/a><\/i>]<\/sup> a software developer formerly employed by <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Symantec Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symantec_Corporation\">Symantec Corporation<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"America Online\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/America_Online\">America Online<\/a> (AOL), <a title=\"Sun Microsystems\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Microsystems\">Sun Microsystems<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Netscape Communications\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape_Communications\">Netscape Communications<\/a>, and <a title=\"Stanford University\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_University\">Stanford University<\/a> who had worked on the original <a title=\"Netscape Navigator\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape_Navigator\">Netscape Navigator<\/a> project, among others. Friendica has an emphasis on extensive privacy settings and easy server installation. It aims to <a title=\"Federation (information technology)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federation_%28information_technology%29\">federate<\/a> with as many other social networks as possible.<\/p>\n<p>(text from the Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diaspora*:\u00a0Diaspora (currently styled diaspora* and formerly styled DIASPORA*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network that is based upon the free Diaspora software. Diaspora consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. As of March 2014, there are more than 1 million Diaspora accounts. 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