Author Archives: diasporg

Pod down IP issues

My IP’s have been suspended by my host for to much email traffic or some BS, working to resolve. http://www.senderbase.org/lookup?search_string=204.12.211.42 Moved email to 3rd party smtp and waiting for them to unblock the IP’s Make sure you follow me https://www.facebook.com/Diasp.org and https://twitter.com/diasporg

restoring blog and dia.so

Found a partial blog backup and restored. Working to restore dia.so currently, I do not think I will find a db backup for in 🙁

dia.so URL and Diaspora service hub

If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL’s and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora. I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that’s ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so page. Idea is to simplify connecting with others via a… Read More »

Android App for podupti.me

Well I spent sometime setting up Eclipse and the Android SDK. Then I remembered App Builder and wanted to give it a try. So I wrote this little ditty for podupti.me to promote Diaspora overall. Its just basic and I am sure some ideas will come to mind on how to make it better! Click… Read More »

August Pod Update!

Well we survived the doors of my host closing and are now on a dedicated server! Its humming along just fine.Still trying to get back some $ from the VPS jumps and loosing the clubuptime one. But people have been donating and signing up for the coffee subscription and helping out, Thank You! The Diaspora… Read More »

Servers, Issues – August.

Most of you know my host http://clubuptime.com closed its doors last week. Zero notice, just pulled the plug and no server. I was able to get the pod back up in a few hours using a backup from the night before and a VPS I was able to get spun up from a deal on… Read More »

July Pod Update

I first want to really thank the folks who have subscribed/flattrd or donated, I really appreciate your help and am back at the break even point and that’s right where I want/need to be! The server speed seems to be holding steady and all is working ok. I personally have been working on other things… Read More »

Pod Privacy Policy

Here is the privacy policy of diasp.org, http://diasp.org/privacy-policy.html My main connection, http://www.wholesaleinternet.com/ I store my pod database backups and photo backups at another host I use,  http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/PrivacyPolicy

Official news from Diaspora team

The core team has a new post no on their blog   It’s hard to believe, but we’ve been working on Diaspora for a whole year now. And I am happy to report that we’re still here, and we’re going strong. From those first pizza-fueled nights in the ACM room at NYU, to the Kickstarter… Read More »

Formatting Text on Diaspora | Different Computers

Diaspora has a variety of ways for you to make your text less than plain. For those who know what Mark Down is, Diaspora uses a partial subset of that. But it also does things a bit like Twitter does, and a bit like Facebook stole from Twitter. Most of these formatting tricks work in… Read More »