https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/ Discuss suggestions or needed improvements for Diaspora en Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:04:09 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/images/misc/rss.png https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/ https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?854-Events-Calendaring&goto=newpost Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:21:09 GMT The feature I'm missing the most from fb is events. I'd love to see some kind of events manager that would allow users to create events, specifying a when and where and description and a link to a site about it, and then other users can specify if they will or won't be or might be attending. Maybe people should be able to post photos or other media captured at the event to the event's post on Diaspora. ]]> Diaspora Suggestions shoulder https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?854-Events-Calendaring https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?853-Support-for-sending-serialized-objects-(e.g.-from-C-)-over-diaspora&goto=newpost Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:17:26 GMT Hi: I'd like to know whether Diaspora has any protocol or suggestions for sending serialized application data to specific aspects from one's diaspora account. I'm exploring how scholars could use Diaspora to share research data, including data which is serialized from a language like C++; one aspect could then represent a community of researchers collaborating on a specific project. I'm interested in native applications targeting Diaspora because of the possibility of sharing research data which might need complex processing; for example, sharing computer simulations, 3d graphics, etc. So for example if a researcher wanted to create a private network s/he could create (or someone do it for them) a C++ library to manage the particular type of data related to that research, export C++ objects as streams over Diaspora, and the different nodes on that network would have the capacity to display and analyze those objects with the full power of native software, such as using OpenSCAD for 3d imaging and OpenCL/GL for analysis. I've also considered build a native GUI targeting Diaspora accounts. I realize that there is already a Qt-based project with a similar idea, although that project apparently plans on using a Diaspora API when one becomes available. I've been studying the Diaspora source with the idea of perhaps using an embedded Ruby interpreter rather than a Web API; any suggestions? ]]> Diaspora Suggestions Nathaniel Christen https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?853-Support-for-sending-serialized-objects-(e.g.-from-C-)-over-diaspora https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?852-Alternative-to-Pods&goto=newpost Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:07:24 GMT I just created a Diaspora account after being excited for the past year about the possibility of Diaspora as alternative to Facebook. I have been... I just created a Diaspora account after being excited for the past year about the possibility of Diaspora as alternative to Facebook. I have been missing out on a great deal of potentially widened social horizons in the real world because I have not been willing to join Facebook and display my whole life to big business, the CIA, the FBI, and the police - yes, these bodies are all closely monitoring and storing data from Facebook and other online social media, including photos, which are being read and tracked using facial recognition software. But now that I've gotten on to Disapora, I am discovering the same vulnerabilities to surveillance exist as with Facebook and others.

I had this concept in my mind that Diaspora would allow me, the user, to store all my data on my own desktop or cloud or server space of my own choice. But that is not the case. If so, we each would have a Diaspora software on our desktops that would function as the interface that is now being hosted on the pods. Then connections would be made in the same way that email and web browsers work, in a sort of hybrid fashion. We would each have the option of encrypting all our data that we would send out and entrust to the recipient(s), in the same way as now available via our email apps and web browsers, and we would each be able to connect online this way via Tor or a proxie Virtual Private Network, if we so choose to further protect our privacies.

I believe that would be a better model than the pods. The vast majority of data/activity that is sent out is text, anyway, which does not take that much space - my little computer is storing a great deal of emails I've sent through the last two decades, which I've opted to save. Each of us users would be able to periodically trash, or have automatically trashed, as in desktop email apps, whatever content/data we would opt to have trashed. Photos and other media would be made accessible to whomever we choose via whatever storage space we choose, and we can just as easily remove at will, as well. The text and media would be available to view via our own computer's public folder(s).

This would not in any way change the ability of any one to copy and paste or download the individual media that we've chosen to allow them to view. We would still have to be judicious about what we share, but copying all that would be ridiculous and piecemeal for whoever would want to do it, but they would be able to access it only because we've specifically allowed them to, while it would keep out the CIA, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Forces, and their corporate friends, who are all hellbent on violating all our civil liberties. And at the end of the day, we would be in complete control of all our real-time data, and we wouldn't have to worry about pod owners compromising them.

The same kinds of networking could be created as what's being created through the pods now - but all the data would be stored in each individual's own computer or some other somewhat secured space of choice. Updates to the Diaspora software would be made available just like any other software.

This, to me, is the promise that I had envisioned open source Diaspora as holding out. I'm not a developer and thus wouldn't know how to implement any of this. But it does seem like a doable vision.

Takers? ]]> Diaspora Suggestions Brightlife https://www.diasporaforum.org/forum/showthread.php?852-Alternative-to-Pods