To make Diaspora a reality the team is raising money through the online fund-raising site, Kickstarter. Their initial goal was to raise US$10,000 in 39 days – a mark they reached in just 12 days.

U.S. Authorities say Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old Soviet-born co-founder of the Diaspora social network, died in California during the weekend.

There is another social network out there which, from the start, emphasized the classification of your connections into different groups, each with their own realm of discussion.

PALO ALTO — Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a co-founder of the startup social networking site Diaspora that put an emphasis on privacy and user-control, has died, a company spokesman said Monday. He was 22.

Diaspora Social Network, Originally Crowdfunded on Kickstarter, Now Being Used by ISIS August 23, 2014 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois ...

The 22-year-old was one of four New York-based students who launched Diaspora as a "privacy-aware, user-controlled" social network. It was set up in response to criticism that Facebook was not ...

Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, has cracked open its doors for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants.

Two years ago Diaspora gained a lot of traction with its plan to create an open-source social network that would let users own their data, though to date the service still hasn’t actually ...

The team behind a social network being used by Islamic State (IS) militants has admitted it cannot prevent the spread of extremist material. Diaspora is a decentralised network with data stored on ...

Diaspora won't be the first site to play the "our social network is more private than your social network card", and it won't be the last.

Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, has cracked open its doors for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants. “Every week, we’ll ...