Welcome to the Diaspora Project!

Diaspora is a privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do-it-all open source social network. Check out our project site.

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Diaspora is currently going through a huge refactoring push, the code is changing fast! If you want to do something big, reach out on IRC or the mailing list first, so you can contribute effectively <3333

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With Diaspora you can:

• Run and host your own pod and have control over your own social experience.
• Own your own data.
• Make friends across other pods seamlessly.

Documentation is available on our wiki

Quick Start:

Here's how you can get a development environment up and running. You can check out system-specific guides here.

Step 1: Clone the repo

Step 2: Navigate to your cloned repository

Step 3: Install Bundler and gems (depending on OS Vendor)

Step 4: Edit database.yml, and rename application.yml.example to just application.yml

Step 5: Create and migrate the database

Step 6: Start the test server

Resources:

• Wiki
• Podmin Resources
• Contributing
• Dev List
• Discuss List
• IRC