Diaspora–New Social Network [Review]

Posted by Raza Rahil Hussain in Internet, Social Networking | 4 comments

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Today I got the Alpha invitation of Diaspora which is another social network startup from 4 NYU students who want better social networking site where user can control their privacy. Diaspora doesn’t expose your information to advertisers or other sites. It’s your private site where you can control what you want to share with whom.

Diaspora is an open-source project that is using Ruby on Rails to build a social network that focuses on user privacy.

Lets start exploring Diaspora:

Once you signup for diaspora, you’ll reach Welcome page where you can fill up your profile, add user to your network, Follow tags, connect other sites. etc.

After signup you will reach home page.

 

Share privately or publically

Share status message and photos privately or publically with your friends through “aspects”. You can also share same status message on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. For that you have to connect your account with diaspora. You can post updates to everyone, to just your close friends, to just your family, or to any other subset of your friends. It’s easy to make these groups, called “aspects,” and it’s straightforward to share different things with different aspects.

Stream

Here you can see what’s your friend are sharing. You can like, comment and reshare their status just like Facebook.

Contacts

Manage you contacts, by adding your friend in different aspects. You can also view ‘Featured users’ or ‘Facebook’ friends’ and add them to your aspects.

 

Featured Friends:

Facebook Friends:

Messages:

You can send and receive messages from your friends. In Compose box you can send message or start group conversation with your friends.

Collect photos online

By connecting Cubbi, you can share any photos with you friends just press ‘Shift + Click’ to any photos and it’ll be visible to your stream. You can also save those photos to Dropbox in just one click.

 

Tell me your views on Diaspora and for more updates follow me on diaspora. If you need an invite and then drop your comment below.

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