Similar and Related Projects

Federated Social Networking

Projects in the same broad technology space as Diaspora.

• OStatus
  • rstat.us
  • StatusNet
  • Identi.ca
• Friendika using the Distributed Friends and Relations Network protocol
• GNU social
  • daisycha.in
• Appleseed
• buddycloud channels
• One Social Web
• movim.eu

FreedomBox Foundation

Diaspora was inspired by Eben Moglen's talk about the FreedomBox. Now he's established his own foundation to make it happen.

• FreedomBox on the Debian wiki
• Eben Moglen interview
• Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud - the talk that launched Diaspora

Rails Projects

Other social networking projects in the Ruby and/or Rails space.

• EngineY - A Rails-based social networking and content management framework
• rstat.us
• sharedearth.net - Social network (under development) for sharing possessions and skills (loose long term ambition to operate as a service on Diaspora nodes)

Other Resources

ProjectComparison compares the features, protocols, and maturity of different FSN software packages.

Social Games Look to Outgrow Facebook (article at Forbes.com)