If it looks like it’s Google+, it’s like

The word "Diaspora" is of Greek origin. I find this definition from the bibliological dictionary the most appropriate to the meaning that the creators put:

Diaspora (Greek διασπορά - scattering), the stay of the people outside the country of its origin. Applied to Holy. The term Scripture refers to the old farm. communities scattered in reeds. lands (Jer 25:34; 2 Mack 1:27; John 7:35; James 1: 1).

According to Wikipedia, the idea of ​​creating a project came from a group of students of the Kuranta Institute of Mathematical Sciences (an independent unit of New York University): Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, after a speech on February 5, 2010 by Ebene Moglen, a professor at Columbia University, “Freedom in the Cloud ”, in which Moglen described the centralized social networks as“ spying on freedom ”.

I reprinted the main milestones of creating a “distributed social network” not accidentally: I follow the project almost from the ground up, but today my hands got to register on one of the “nodes” - distributed servers managed by Diaspora. I signed up (at https://diasp.org ) and ohrenel a bit. Doesn't anyone like this interface?



The diaspora supports a subset of the standard markdown . To become a "member" - just register at one of the "open sites". All traffic is via https .
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It seems to me worth trying to build distributed P2P systems for solving “usual” tasks. As far as I can tell, the decentralized search engine YaCy was a pioneer (not counting npsttorrentov) - now the social network that lives on user machines has entered the α-stage. I didn’t find clear indications on the Internet from which this Google+ interface exactly copies the Diaspora’s decisions (the latter also includes # and @ familiar to us on twitter).

I do not pretend to originality, it just seemed to me that it might be interesting to someone.