I have seen some conversations about the security of pods and the like. I'd like to point my pod members and others who might be having the same questions to this excellent thread concerning where diaspora* sits in the security landscape:

https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/i-want-to-try-diaspora-but-i-have-some-questions-about-how-it-works/3481/6

This includes some comments about features that would require external analysis of the social graph, which is currently made more difficult through diaspora*'s design.

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I want to try diaspora*, but I have some questions about how it works

Storing things encrypted on the server is only useful if you can separate data storage from data retrieval/decryption physically and logically. If the party who runs a theoretical zero-knowledge storage is the same party that provides you with...

Hello everyone on the social.sacrideo.us server. Just so you know, this server is still what I would consider experimental. I'm planning some future things related to Diaspora* that I wanted to verify with this server. Things are heating up, and that means that I'm likely to keep this server around, but I just wanted to make sure everyone who joins the server is aware that I don't consider it "stable" just yet.

I'm hoping to provide hosting for your own personal pod in the near future to provide users and diaspora* citizens more stability and control over their own experiences.

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