Diaspora Social Network

A Presentation about Diaspora - The Libre-Distributed social network

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1. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Diaspora Social Network Hrishikesh K B hrishi.kb@gmail.com 27 January 2013 Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5 India License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in Created with L ATEX Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
2. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Contents 1 Introduction What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking 2 Distributed Social Networking 3 Diaspora Diaspora Privacy aware Distributed 4 You Can help You Can help Links Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
3. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking What is Social Networking? Social structure. Made up of individuals. Connected interdependency such as friendship. Figure: Social Networking Representation Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
4. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking Social Networking Service Online Service. Made up of individuals. Connected interdependency such as friendship. Contains representation of each user (profile). Social Links. Eg: facebook, twitter, google plus, diaspora, identi.ca Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
5. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking Centralized Social Networking All data stored centrally. Control of data lies with service provider. Centralized storage needs huge amount of computing power. Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
6. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking Privacy issues. Lack of control over data. Potential for misuse of user data. Non portable. Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
7. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help What is Social Networking? Social Networking Service Centralized Social Networking Issues in Centralized Social Networking Alternatives? What is the alternative? Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
8. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Distributed Social Networking No central control. Decentralized data storage. Distributed across different providers. Emphasis on portability and Interoperatability. Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
9. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help It all started with Eben moglans talk Professor of law and legal history at Columbia Universit Friday Feb 5 2010 7 PM NYU Freedom in the cloud Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
10. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Diaspora Privacy aware Distributed Diaspora The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer - founders Released the code under GNU Affero GPLv3. Crowd Funded www.joindiaspora.com Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
11. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Diaspora Privacy aware Distributed Privacy aware Privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive Aspects Own your Data You are in control Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
12. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Diaspora Privacy aware Distributed Pods Each Diaspora installation is called a pod Anyone can own a pod Podupti.me Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
13. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help Diaspora Privacy aware Distributed With all of the concerns over who controls the ”Social Web” – regarding the Google+ name policy and other privacy issues, Facebook’s questionable ethics, and the overall danger of controlled networks. I think it is extremely important for a more decentralized, more democratic, more open, and more free solution to succeed in the interest of personal freedom on the internet. And it looks to me like Diaspora is an essential part of that solution, so I’m endorsing it now, even though it’s not entirely ”ready”. Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
14. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help You Can help Links You can help By Contributing Code By Packaging Diasopora By Running a pod By Documenting By Spreading the word Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
15. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help You Can help Links Links http://diaspora-project.org/ https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora http://podupti.me https://joindiaspora.com https://diasp.org Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network
16. Introduction Distributed Social Networking Diaspora You Can help You Can help Links Hrishikesh K B Diaspora Social Network