Integrating other social networks

General

Keys will be entered into your config/diaspora.yml

Twitter

• Go to [[1]] and sign in
• Click on ‘Create an app’ width=700px
• Register your app [[2]]
  • Give it a name. For example “Diaspora at example.org”
  • Give it a description
  • Set the application website to your pod URL or a page that describes what Diaspora is and what your pod has to do with it
  • Important: Set the callback URL to https://your_pod/auth/twitter/callback, replacing your_pod of course.
  • There’s a ToS to accept
  • There is a Captcha ;)
  • Click “Create Twitter application”
• You now can see your consumer key and your consumer secret, copy them to the right places in config/diaspora.yml
• Go to Settings and change the “Application Type” to “Read and Write”.
• Restart Diaspora on your sever (you can skip that when you want to also add support for more services)
• You’re done. It’s now possible to post to Twitter from your pod :)

Tumblr

• Goto [[3]] and sign up. If you already have an account get sure you’re signed in.
• Goto [[4]]
  

[[5]]

• • Give it a name
  • Set the application website to your pod URL or a page that describes what Diaspora is and what your pod has to do with it
  • Give it a description
  • Enter an email address
  • Important: Set the “Default callback URL” to your pod_url (including http/https)+ /auth/tumblr/callback So if your pod is located at http://example.org enter http://example.org/auth/tumblr/callback
  • You can upload an icon but that’s optional
  • Click register
• You’ll be redirected to [[6]] where you can see your consumer key. After a click on “Show secret key” you can see your consumer secret. Add both to the right places in config/diaspora.yml
• Restart Diaspora on your sever (you can skip that when you want to also add support for more services)
• You’re done. It’s now possible to post to Tumblr from your pod :)

Facebook

• Goto [[7]]
• Choose a name, for example “Diaspora at social.example.org”, choose a namespace. Set the namespace in your config/diaspora.yml [[8]]
• Fill the captcha
• If you don’t see your new app reload the page and select it.
• Copy your App ID and your App Secret to your config/diaspora.yml.
• Click Edit App
• Add your domain to App Domains.
• Check “Website with Facebook Login” and fill in the URL to your pod.
• Hit save.
• Restart Diaspora on your server
• You’re done. It’s now possible to post to Facebook from your pod :)

Privacy of posts to Facebook

Any posts a user makes from a pod to Facebook will be made with the privacy level that the users sets on Facebook side when the user authorizes the Diaspora* pod application. Posts done from Diaspora* do not follow the privacy of selected aspects on Diaspora* side. This behaviour is consistent with posting to Twitter etc where the target application governs the privacy of the post.