Diaspora is a distributed social network with a long history. ...
in early 2010, four undergraduates from New York University made
a Kickstarter video asking for $10,000 to spend the summer building a
distributed alternative to Facebook. They sent it out to friends and
family, and hoped for the best.
But they hit a nerve. There had just been another Facebook privacy
scandal, ... they ...
raised over $200,000 from 6400 different people for a software project
that didn't yet have a single line of code written.