<p>I don’t know if Diaspora was the first of the alternatives to come along, but it was certainly the first I was aware of. It got a lot of attention for the college students who first put it together (and remember that Facebook was originally created by a college student, Mark Zuckerberg). The four students, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer, were inspired by a speech Eben Moglen gave to the Internet society’s New York Chapter, where he described centralized social networks as “Spying for free”. The students chose the name Diaspora, which is a Greek word that means a “scattered or dispersed population” to reflect the idea that instead of a centralized platform, Diaspora would consist of independent nodes, called pods, each running a copy of the free software which is open source and licensed under the GNU-AGPL-3.0 license. <a href="https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1032" class="uri">https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1032</a></p>
<h2 id="links">Links:</h2>
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<li><a href="https://diasporafoundation.org/" class="uri">https://diasporafoundation.org/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://softwarefreedom.org/" class="uri">https://softwarefreedom.org/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111002003516/https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011/09/21/diaspora-means-a-brighter-future-for-all-of-us.html" class="uri">https://web.archive.org/web/20111002003516/https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011/09/21/diaspora-means-a-brighter-future-for-all-of-us.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podupti.me/" class="uri">https://podupti.me/</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:ahuka@pod.haxxors.com">ahuka@pod.haxxors.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pod.haxxors.com/i/394c80269066" class="uri">https://pod.haxxors.com/i/394c80269066</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1032" class="uri">https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1032</a></li>
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