Diaspora*

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:

• Make cool stuff
• Share it across the web
• Own your own data

Quick Start:

Here's how you can get a development environment up and running. This is where any new pod runner should start, as well as people looking to contribute to D*. This script assumes you have a basic Rails setup installed.

Step 1: Download the script

  curl https://raw.github.com/diaspora/diaspora/master/script/install.sh | /bin/sh

Step 2: Follow the instructions

Step 3: Run the the development server

  rails s

then visit 'http://localhost:3000' in your browser.

Step 4: Run tests

  rake

Want a production setup? Having trouble with install script? Want to install D* the slow way?

Look to more specific install guides here.

Contributing

Documentation is available on our wiki

Pull Request Guidelines

Before submitting code, please sign our Contributor License Agreement Sign Here

More Resources:

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