Welcome to the Diaspora Project!
Diaspora is a privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do-it-all open source social network. Check out our project site.
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
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 in your working directory
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
cp database.yml.example database.ymlStep 5: Create and migrate the database (make sure your database of choice is started!)
Step 6: Start the test server