Diaspora is one non-profit organisation, owned by users and one decentralized social network which is based on free Diaspora software. Diaspora consists of a group of independent privately owned nodes called pods and forming the overall network. From 2014 in March, there are now more than 1 million accounts in Diaspora. 
The social network does not belong to any person or entity, preventing it from being the subject of corporate redemption or advertising. In September 2011, developers said, “the distributed design that follows Diaspora ensures that no big corporation will ever control Diaspora, never sell your social life to advertisers and should not be agreed upon by arbitrary rules”
Social development management software γίνεται από το Diaspοra ίδρυμα το οποίο είναι μέλος του Free Software Support Network (FSNN). To FSNN διοικείται από τον Eben Moglen και το Sofware Freedom Law Center. To δίκτυο FSNN λειτουργεί ως η οργάνωση που διαχειρίζεται το branding και τα οικονομικά και νομικά στοιχεία του ενεργητικού του Diaspora.
Social network users retain the ownership of their data and are not required to grant ownership rights. This is achieved as each user has his or her own (pod) server that can connect to the largest Diaspora network but is not controlled by a master administrator. There is also a choice of a user to be able to connect to one of the open nodes Diaspora has it. The software is designed to allow users to download all their photos and text at any time.
Other features of Diaspora: User posts can be either 'public insurance' είτε ‘limited'. Στην περίπτωση που χαρακτηρίζονται σαν ‘limited',μπορούν να διαβαστούν μόνο από την ομάδα ή τις ομάδες ανθρώπων που έχει ορίσει ο χρήστης. Οι χρήστες μπορούν να στέλνουν προσωπικά μηνύματα ο ένας στον άλλον τα οποία ονομάζονται συζητήσεις. Ο κάθε καινούργιος λογαριασμός χρήστη περιέχει κάποια προεπιλεγμένα πεδία όπως φίλοι, οικογένεια, δουλειά και γνωστοί. Ο χρήστης μπορεί να προσθέσει πεδία όπως αυτός επιθυμεί. Επίσης επιτρέπει την χρήση ψευδώνυμου σε αντίθεση με το Facebook. Τα posts μπορούν να μεταδοθούν και σε συνδεδεμένους λογαριασμούς στα facebook, tumblr and twitter.
Diaspora was founded in 2010 by 4 students from New York City University, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer. The first node was presented by the developers in 2010 as an alpha test version. In 2012 the founders announced that they would let the public take over the governance of the project. Since then Diaspora has been developed and managed by members of its community. The focus of the community development team is to create stable versions of the software and further development such as better data communication between nodes and attracting as many volunteers as possible to write code for the project.
Article by Theodore, Gens at Wikibooks.org
