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[Jared <739368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Diaspora* networks are in open alpha, and it appears that developers
are working on an statusnet/twitter like api.

Because its licensed under aGPL, anyone can instantiate 'pods' (network nodes). Most of these federate. A user would have to choose both the Diaspora* service, and then in an "add accounts" menu, a pod, given by the domain name where that pod is hosted. There's a list of mostly public pods at the wiki on their github repo.
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods.

If this list could become a discovery service that gwibber could access,
it could offer that list to users under the "add accounts"
functionality, so a user could add the pod he belongs to, without
needing to request gwibber developers to add a separate plugin for each
particular pod.

I don't know how far along the developers are to specifying their
interface / API, but it would be natural for them to work with you in
doing so. Free software network user-agents should support free software
network services. And vice versa. Thats what people living in the free
world want. :) Why should Diaspora* be contemplating iPhone apps and
Gwibber be contemplating G+?  Well, I suppose there're some good reasons
why.

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Title:
  diaspora support

Status in Gwibber:
  New
Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gwibber

  Diaspora is the wildly successful new social network on the block,
  fully open source and crowd funded and it respects privacy. It sounds
  like just the kind of choice we should be able to bring to the user.
  So consider this a request for Diaspora support, if an invite is
  needed I will be happy to provide.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gwibber 2.91.91.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 21 10:21:41 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110314)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=da:pt_BR:en
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=da_DK.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gwibber
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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