Diaspora

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon's messages are distributed across independent servers with their own communities and rules. But it's just one example of this new breed of website which makes up the fediverse, which may just buck the trend of locking content behind walled gardens like Twitter and Facebook.

The lads behind Diaspora, the open source decentralized alternative to Facebook, have announced the public release of its source code to developers.

Four New Your college students are taking on social networking behemoth Facebook with Disapora – a distributed, open source social network that allows users total control over their information and who they share it with.