Diaspora

diaspora* is a privacy-aware, decentralized, open source social network, launched in 2010 and released under the AGPL. Rather than running on servers owned by a single company, diaspora* runs as a federated network of independently operated servers called "pods" — anyone can join an existing pod or host their own, and users own their own data. Its "aspects" model lets people organize contacts into groups and control exactly which audience sees each post, alongside hashtags, mentions, reshares, likes, polls, photos and private conversations. Pods federate with each other using the diaspora* federation protocol. Since release 0.9.0.0 the project officially supports third-party applications through a documented JSON REST API at /api/v1 on every pod, authenticated with OpenID Connect Core 1.0 including Dynamic Client Registration — a necessity in a decentralized network where an application cannot pre-register with every pod it might talk to.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

How we profile Diaspora

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Diaspora. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 14

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Diaspora Aspects API

The Aspects API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for aspects.

Diaspora Comments API

The Comments API from Diaspora — 3 operation(s) for comments.

Diaspora Contacts API

The Contacts API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for contacts.

Diaspora Conversations API

The Conversations API from Diaspora — 3 operation(s) for conversations.

Diaspora Likes API

The Likes API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for likes.

Diaspora Notifications API

The Notifications API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for notifications.

Diaspora Photos API

The Photos API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for photos.

Diaspora Post interactions API

The Post interactions API from Diaspora — 5 operation(s) for post interactions.

Diaspora Posts API

The Posts API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for posts.

Diaspora Reshares API

The Reshares API from Diaspora — 1 operation(s) for reshares.

Diaspora Search API

The Search API from Diaspora — 3 operation(s) for search.

Diaspora Streams API

The Streams API from Diaspora — 7 operation(s) for streams.

Diaspora Tag followings API

The Tag followings API from Diaspora — 2 operation(s) for tag followings.

Diaspora Users API

The Users API from Diaspora — 5 operation(s) for users.

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

diaspora-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Diaspora Authentication

openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Diaspora Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Diaspora Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Diaspora Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for Diaspora — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

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