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"We own our social life"

Come listen to Praveen from yatra.diasporafoundation.org and discuss.

When: 5th Mar 2015, 5:30PM until ... Where: Servelots, 3354 KR Road, Bangalore servelots.com/directions.txt

Diaspora Yatra is a campaign to promote diaspora* and privacy in digital communications in India.

Who keeps the data we share on services like Facebook and Whatsapp? How can they provide a free service for everyone? Are they so charitable? How do they pay for their servers, bandwidth, and employees? Are ads in them similar to how newspapers and TV channels show advertisements? Can we have a better deal? What is diaspora*? How is it different? How can we start using diaspora*? How can we help diaspora*?

diaspora* is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network that is based upon the free Diaspora software. Diaspora consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. As of March 2014, there are more than 1 million Diaspora accounts

Free: Diaspora is a free software. Anyone can view, copy, modify, or share it as they wish. Open: diaspora* does not judge us. Whoever we are, we can have our own social life. Nobody will censor us and nobody will bother us with content that we don't want to see. Decentralized: diaspora* is not run by a single central authority. Instead, anyone can run the Diaspora software on their own server (called a diaspora pod) and these pods can communicate with each other, thus forming one single community that is spread across thousands of servers worldwide. This makes it resistant to take downs and also gives us better control over where our data is saved.

Servelots team is also eager use SWeeTs in such contexts. See wiki.janastu.org/Sweet_Web

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