{"id":1531,"date":"2010-08-31T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2010-08-31T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:43:42","slug":"facebook-alternative-to-launch-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/facebook-alternative-to-launch-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Alternative To Launch In September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1555\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"diaspora\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/diaspora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/diaspora.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/diaspora-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the project have said.<\/p>\n<p>Diaspora describes itself as a &#8220;privacy-aware, personally-controlled&#8221; social network.<\/p>\n<p>The open-source project made headlines earlier this year when Facebook was forced to simplify its privacy settings, after they were criticised for being overly complex and confusing.<\/p>\n<p>The project, developed by four US students, raised $200,000 (\u00a3140,000).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th,&#8221; the team wrote on their blog.<\/p>\n<p>The team said they had spent the summer &#8220;building clear, contextual sharing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That means an intuitive way for users to decide, and not notice deciding, what content goes to their co-workers and what goes to their drinking buddies. We know that&#8217;s a hard [user interface] problem and we take it seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project was started by three computer scientists and one mathematician from New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 September, an open alternative to Facebook will be launched. The project, entitled Diaspora will be a more &#8220;privacy-aware, personally-controlled&#8221; social network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}