diaspora

Technical Documentation of the Pistos Diaspora forks with a whole lot of interesting features that go beyond the normal Diaspora code. There are some things in there that really interest me, maybe I should think about moving to Amsterdam. Therefore, here's a blog reminder.

Diaspora* Advanced Sharer. Another Diaspora share button, this one is hosted on github (and can therefore also be "cloned" for self-hosting). It offers a selection of pods that you have used - not just a single pod. Therefore interesting for those who are on multiple pods.

My profile on my own Diaspora pod - if anyone is also there, just add gb@pod.rfc1437.de as an aspect. It's running quite smoothly now and therefore it's now so to speak semi-official. Not that there's much going on there yet, but maybe one or the other reader here also hangs out on a Diaspora pod. It's the little details that interest me about Diaspora - of course also the big things like cost efficiency and distributed architecture, but when you see for example that the profile naturally has an RSS feed as standard, that's already nice. Or that Markdown is simply offered as formatting. And since the last iterations, the mobile interface is also quite nice. No app, but at least an iOS adapted surface. And well, the distributed installation - Diaspora is a bit like OpenSim in that way. And that's at least quite interesting as a toy. BTW: personally known readers can write to me for an invite if they want to play around with it. Sorry, no open pod, but I currently have no desire for the automatic hassle that results from public systems.

Setup services on your Pod - GitHub. Saved for later, I've already set up the link to Twitter on my own pod. I'll probably set up Tumblr soon too, since I still use it quite often. Diaspora is still quite buggy (it's really Alpha), but already quite complete in terms of features. And it's fun to play around with. However, people on Diaspora pods should also post more there, otherwise the social aspect has its problems - I only knew after self-experiments on two pods and several days of waiting that posts actually arrive at me - not because of technical problems, but simply because no one wrote anything ...