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Diaspora Open Sources Social Networking

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Linux Pro Magazine; By Trevan McGee 		Mail this story
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Startup Diaspora has released a dev build on github. The project has the admirable goal of decentralizing social networks like Facebook and Twitter, putting the power back into users' hands. It aims to do this be deploying locally hosted, customizable "seeds" that allow users to import all their social network feeds. Once that's done, all incoming and outgoing information is encrypted.

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