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+ :title "Find Me on Diaspora"
+ :date (make-date* 2013 06 30)
+ :tags '("foss" "diaspora" "federated" "decentralized" "rails" "wsu")
+ :summary "I have started using and contributing to Diaspora."
+
+ (p [With all of the recent news about the NSA’s widespread spying, I
+have decided to ween myself off of proprietary, centralized web
+services.  Facebook, Google, and other such corporations hold onto
+massive amounts of our data that we’ve willingly given to them via
+status messages, “like” buttons, searches, and emails.  Using and
+contributing to free (as in freedom), decentralized (like email) web
+services is a really great way to re-establish control of our data.
+These services rely on many small, interconnected nodes to operate,
+rather than a monolithic website that is under the control of one
+entity.  If the distinction between centralized and decentralized
+isn’t clear, consider how email functions.  There are many email
+providers to choose from.  Users can communicate with others that
+choose to use a different email provider.  This is how web services
+should work, but unfortunately very few work this way now.])
+
+ (p [The centralized web application that I spend too much time using
+is Facebook.  I have knowingly given Facebook a “frontdoor” into my
+life for years now and I’m ready to move on.  I think that the concept
+of a “social network” is fun, so I wanted a Facebook replacement.
+Fortunately, there is one:
+,(anchor [Diaspora] "http://diasporaproject.org/").])
+
+ (p [Diaspora is a
+,(anchor [free] "https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora"),
+distributed, social networking web application written in Ruby using
+the Rails framework.  Diaspora is a community-run project. Its success
+depends upon users, developers, technical writers, user interface
+designers, etc. investing their time and/or money into making it
+better.  The Diaspora network is broken up into many servers, known as
+,(anchor [pods] "http://podupti.me").
+Users have the choice of which pod to store their data on.
+Pods assert no ownership over their user’s data, unlike Facebook, and
+do not use that data for targeted advertisements.  Diaspora is still a
+rather young project, but it does everything that I need it to
+do.  Goodbye, Facebook!])
+
+ (p [Since I’m a programmer, I naturally wanted to hack on some code and
+contribute.  The main developers are very friendly and give great
+guidance to newcomers that want to help out.  Every Monday is a “Bug
+Mash Monday”, where a list of open issues is presented to entice
+contributors to resolve them.  In the past few weeks, I have made two
+contributions to the Diaspora project: a
+,(anchor [bug fix] "https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/2948")
+and a
+,(anchor [small feature] "https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/2948").
+Diaspora is very hackable and I encourage other developers
+with Ruby/Rails and Javascript knowledge to join in.])
+
+ (p [TL\;R: Diaspora is great.  Create an account.  Check out my
+,(anchor [profile] "https://joindiaspora.com/u/davexunit").
+Start sharing. Happy hacking. :\)]))