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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Diaspora the way a machine reads it — 34 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Diaspora scores 41.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 27/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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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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Open Collections 15
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Comments API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Contacts API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Conversations API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Likes API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Notifications API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Photos API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Post interactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Posts API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Reshares API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Streams API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Tag followings API
OPEN COLLECTIONdiaspora* Aspects Users API
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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 Server
A candidate Model Context Protocol tool surface for the diaspora* API. The decentralized design shapes the whole server: a pod host is not configuration that can be baked in onc...
MCP SERVERSecurity 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.
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.
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.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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