Diaspora
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Diaspora
Diaspora is a project that was founded by New York University students Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Diaspora is intended to be an open-source, decentralized alternative to Facebook.
History
In 2010 the group of founders began a fundraising campaign on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Within 12 days they surpassed their funding goal of $10,000 and when the funding closed after 39 days on Kickstater the project had secured $200,000 in funding[1]