# Diaspora

Diaspora was a federated social network released in 2010. It is still in existence, although mostly unused.

The federated nodes, called "pods", are hosted by different individuals and institutions.

### Identity

### Networking/Message passing

### Data Storage/Message Persistence

### Moderation/Reputation

Like Mastodon, much of the moderation is done at the server level. When Isis joined the Diaspora network in 2014 after they were censored by Twitter, all the larger pods moved to block their server.

### Social/Discovery

Like Twitter, Diaspora included hashtags and mentions.

### Privacy and Access Control

### Monetization

### User experience (if applies)

### Interoperability

Friendica instances are a part of the diaspora network, and natively supports the Diaspora protocol.

### Scalability

### Metrics

### Links