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Receive project news (Updates, Security fixes, ...)

There are multiple channels for important news, including:

the official diaspora* project account: hq[at]pod.diaspora.software.
the official blog at blog.diasporafoundation.org, which also offers an Atom feed.
the announcements category on Discourse, to which you can subscribe if you have a Discourse account.

Talk with us

On diaspora* itself

The official project account is hq@pod.diaspora.software - feel free to send feedback via there!

Press inquiries

Any inquiries from media for interviews or QA, you can also post them to our press team directly at press@diasporafoundation.org.

Discourse

Our primary place for practicing community governance is the official diaspora* Discourse. The tool is used for discussions on governance, process and technical topics, and it also functions as a voting tool, when decisions need to be made.

Discussion and support gives a more in-depth view of how things are organized there, and that article is also viewed as a guide in case you want to participate.

IRC

Note:

If you do not receive an answer to your question, please open a thread in our Discourse Forum instead. This allows us to answer you asynchronously, without being in the same timezone or being online at the same time.

If you have questions about anything Diaspora-related, the best way to get an answer quickly is to visit us in IRC. An IRC “channel” is roughly equivalent to a chatroom, or a text-based group chat in Skype, or a Campfire room.

It’s fairly low-tech as group communication goes, but since we have contributors all over the world in different time zones and with different levels of internet access, it works well for us.

Click the link to join the channel in a browser window. You can also download and use an IRC client such as Colloquy for OS X, mIRC for Windows, XChat or Konversation for Linux distros or Pidgin for any of these platforms.

Join us at #diaspora on irc.libera.chat.

Oh and don’t ask if you can ask something, just ask.

Other

You can also interact with our Twitter and Facebook accounts, but don't expect too much reactivity there. We don't like to use services built on commercial data processing. There is also an unofficial Russian language group in the VK.com social network.

Legacy

Mailing Lists

Warning:

We do not use Google groups anymore, please come on Github to report bugs and talk about the code or on Discourse for everything else.

You can find our list’s web interfaces on Google Groups.

Diaspora-dev

Diaspora-discuss

Unsubscribing from a mailing list

To unsubscribe from the “diaspora-discuss” mailing list, send an mail with whatever content to diaspora-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email from Google Groups indicating that you have unsubscribed.

Unofficial

Jabber/XMPP

Note that all of these are unofficial and community run, don't rely on finding core project members there.

diaspora@conference.dukgo.com - English community chatroom
diaspora@conference.coding4coffee.org - German community chatroom
redeslibres@salas.mijabber.es - Spanish community chatroom
diasporerxs@salsa.suchat.org - Spanish community chatroom
diaspora-ru@conference.dukgo.com - Russian community chatroom
diaspora-portugues@conference.diasporabrazil.org - Brazilian community chatroom
diaspora-français@conference.diasporabrazil.org - French community chatroom
diaspora-italiano@conference.diasporabrazil.org - Italian community chatroom
podmins@conference.diasp.in - Informal group for podmins support and communication (English)
diaspora-podmins@conference.diasporabrazil.org - XMPP Chat room for Diaspora podmins worldwide (podmins only)

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+== Receive project news (Updates, Security fixes, ...) ==
-== Loomio ==
+There are multiple channels for important news, including:
-Our primary place for practicing community governance is the [http://www.loomio.org/groups/194 Diaspora* group at Loomio]. The tool is used for discussions on governance, process and technical topics, and it also functions as a voting tool, when decisions need to be made.
+* the official diaspora* project account: hq[at]pod.diaspora.software.
+* the official blog at [https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/ blog.diasporafoundation.org], which also offers [https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/feed an Atom feed].
+* the [https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/c/announcements announcements category on Discourse], to which you can subscribe if you have a Discourse account.
-[[Discussion and voting]] gives a more in-depth view of how things are organized there, and that article is also viewed as a guide in case you want to participate.
+== Talk with us ==
-== IRC ==
+=== On diaspora* itself ===
+The official project account is hq@pod.diaspora.software - feel free to send feedback via there!
+=== Press inquiries ===
+Any inquiries from media for interviews or QA, you can also post them to our press team directly at [mailto:press@diasporafoundation.org press@diasporafoundation.org].
+=== Discourse ===
+Our primary place for practicing community governance is the [https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/ official diaspora* Discourse]. The tool is used for discussions on governance, process and technical topics, and it also functions as a voting tool, when decisions need to be made.
+[[Discussion and support]] gives a more in-depth view of how things are organized there, and that article is also viewed as a guide in case you want to participate.
+=== IRC ===
+{{Note|If you do not receive an answer to your question, please [https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org open a thread in our Discourse Forum instead]. This allows us to answer you asynchronously, without being in the same timezone or being online at the same time.}}
 If you have questions about anything Diaspora-related, the best way to get an answer quickly is to visit us in IRC. An IRC “channel” is roughly equivalent to a chatroom, or a text-based group chat in Skype, or a Campfire room.
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 It’s fairly low-tech as group communication goes, but since we have contributors all over the world in different time zones and with different levels of internet access, it works well for us.
-=== Channels ===
+Click the link to join the channel in a browser window. You can also download and use an IRC client such as [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] for OS X, [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] for Windows, [http://xchat.org/ XChat] or [http://konversation.kde.org/ Konversation] for Linux distros or [https://pidgin.im/ Pidgin] for any of these platforms.
-We have several IRC channels. Click the link to join the channel in a browser window. You can also download and use an IRC client such as [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] for OS X, [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] for Windows, [http://xchat.org/ XChat] or [http://konversation.kde.org/ Konversation] for Linux distros.
+Join us at [https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#diaspora #diaspora on irc.libera.chat].
-* [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora #diaspora on irc.freenode.net] - '''for general questions and discussion around Diaspora and help for folks installing it'''
+Oh and don’t ask if you can ask something, [https://workaround.org/getting-help-on-irc just ask].
-* [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-dev #diaspora-dev on irc.freenode.net] - '''discussion of the source code and help for new developer contributors'''
-* [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-de #diaspora-de on irc.freenode.net] - '''discussion in German.'''
-* [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-es #diaspora-es on irc.freenode.net] - '''discussion in Spanish.'''
-* [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-fr #diaspora-fr on irc.freenode.net] - '''discussion in French.'''
-Oh and don’t ask if you can ask something, [http://justask.tk just ask].
+=== Other ===
-== Mailing Lists ==
+You can also interact with our [https://twitter.com/joindiaspora Twitter] and [https://www.facebook.com/joindiaspora Facebook] accounts, but don't expect too much reactivity there. We don't like to use services built on commercial data processing. There is also an unofficial Russian language group in the [https://vk.com/diaspora VK.com] social network.
-A mailing list is basically a forum where you can use your email address to create and reply on topics.
-You can find our list’s web interfaces on Google Groups. If you have a Google Account, you can just go there and subscribe and post from your browser, or simply browse the archives.
+== Legacy ==
+=== Mailing Lists ===
+{{Serious|We do not use Google groups anymore, please come on [https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora Github] to report bugs and talk about the code or on [https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/ Discourse] for everything else.}}
+You can find our list’s web interfaces on Google Groups.
 * '''[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/diaspora-dev Diaspora-dev]'''
-This is where all the development-related topics are discussed. Bigger code-changes affecting all Pod-Administrators (and where some action is required) will also be announced here.
 * '''[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/diaspora-discuss Diaspora-discuss]'''
-Here you can talk about and ask for pretty much anything involving Diaspora*, including conceptual discussions about [[Feature Request Guidelines|feature requests]]
+'''Unsubscribing from a mailing list'''
-'''Many people might not want to register with Google just to use a mailing list, so here is how to do it like it’s 1999.'''
+To unsubscribe from the “diaspora-discuss” mailing list, send an mail with whatever content to <tt>diaspora-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</tt>. You’ll get an email from Google Groups indicating that you have unsubscribed.
-=== Joining a mailing list ===
+== Unofficial ==
-You need to “subscribe” to a mailing list in order to be able to reply on topics. '''''If you subscribe on a mailing list, you always get a mail when a new topic or reply on a topic was created''''', so it’d be a good idea to set some filters or use a separate email address.
+=== Jabber/XMPP ===
-To subscribe to the “diaspora-discuss” mailing list, send a mail with whatever content to <tt>diaspora-discuss+subscribe@googlegroups.com</tt>. You’ll get a mail from Google Groups on which you have to reply in order to verify your subscription.
+Note that all of these are unofficial and community run, don't rely on finding core project members there.
-=== Unsubscribing from a mailing list ===
-To unsubscribe from the “diaspora-discuss” mailing list, send an mail with whatever content to <tt>diaspora-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</tt>. You’ll get an email from Google Groups indicating that you have unsubscribed.
-=== Create new topics/reply to topics ===
+* diaspora@conference.dukgo.com - English community chatroom
+* diaspora@conference.coding4coffee.org - German community chatroom
+* redeslibres@salas.mijabber.es - Spanish community chatroom
+* diasporerxs@salsa.suchat.org - Spanish community chatroom
+* diaspora-ru@conference.dukgo.com - Russian community chatroom
+* diaspora-portugues@conference.diasporabrazil.org - Brazilian community chatroom
+* diaspora-français@conference.diasporabrazil.org - French community chatroom
+* diaspora-italiano@conference.diasporabrazil.org - Italian community chatroom
+* podmins@conference.diasp.in - Informal group for podmins support and communication (English)
+* diaspora-podmins@conference.diasporabrazil.org - XMPP Chat room for Diaspora podmins worldwide (podmins only)
-* To create a new topic in "diaspora-discuss", send a mail to <tt>diaspora-discuss@googlegroups.com</tt>, subject as topic title, content as topic’s first post’s content.
-* To reply to a topic, reply to one of those mail-notifications you get when you are subscribed to the mailing list. Be sure to “reply to list” and not to the sender.
-{{note
-| '''The mailing lists are moderated.''' Your first post will be reviewed manually and has to be approved by a human. Once accepted, all subsequent posts will go straight through without any moderation.}}
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