First deployment of C4Social Diaspora*

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We now have a Diaspora* pod running which is based on a similar kind of fork to the Mastodon one. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Diaspora, it was the first federated projects I ever heard of, early last decade. They started with one of the first successful kickstarters, there was a lot of activity but I heard key contributors got hired away, but still a decent number of users are on its network. It is not, however using ActivityPub. It’s only connection to the AP fedi is via bridge to Friendica (who they imported D* code to make that happen).

When I think about mappings between big tech and the fedi, Facebook is a big blind spot. Friendica is probably closest but Diaspora was originally more similar. More recent developments like Insta and TikTok more closesly map to PixelFed. So it’s perhaps not a very hip format, even though it’s in use by billions? In any case, I’m excited to get a pod running with some recent improvements and am curious to see how it evolves under a permissive development model (but not license!) like C4.

https://dogieda.org is where you can find the pod and you can document/discuss issues here.