[danielsiders]

Diaspora* is a federated open source social network. It does not have a protocol specification or an API for app support/integration. Diaspora* is not intended to be run as one server/user, but by clustering users on pods with pod administrators, etc.

[Meldryn]

Reading the API docs, it seems that every user needs their own URI to be uniquely identified. I wonder how this will work with the average user, just IP address? What about users with shared internet?

[danielsiders]

You're correct-- we anticipate users either registering their own domains (i.e. http://danielsiders.com) or using a hosted service that provides subdomains (http://danielsiders.tent.io). If you're hosting at home (dream solution here is plug computers), then dynamic DNS pointing to your home IP/computer.

[kevingranade]

PageKite (pagekite.net) is another solution for self-hosted from a household. plug

[mmahemoff]

This was the mistake Open ID made, which they later realised complicated things way too much for the average user. Regular users want to identify as an email address, not a URI.