Diaspora/Website

The public activity stream displays all public posts available to your pod, even posts created by people you aren’t sharing with and which don’t contain any tags you follow. That’s a lot of content!

Other views

There are other views available in diaspora*, which you can find by clicking links.

Tag stream

Click on any <span class="click">#tag</span> in diaspora* to take you to the “tag stream.” This shows you a stream containing all the posts your pod knows about which use that #tag.

Single-post view

Click on the timestamp on any post to view that post and any comments on it in the “single-post view.” The timestamp is the link by the post author’s name that reads something like “2 hours ago.” If you want to send someone a link to a post in diaspora*, you can grab the post’s direct URL from here.

Click the <span class="click">Settings</span> link in the drawer if you want to change any of your profile information.

The following icons will be shown below the aspect selector button: a @mention icon if you are sharing with that person, a message (envelope) icon if you have mutual sharing, and an ignore icon.

Underneath the person’s name and ID are tabs to display their posts, their uploaded photos, and any of their contacts which they have made visible to you (which is explained in the next part, “Aspects”).

Color themes

You can customise how diaspora* looks by choosing one of our color themes from the <span class="click">Settings</span> menu (see %{part_link}). The current themes are:

<strong>Original gray</strong>: this is the default diaspora* theme

<strong>Original white background</strong>: the default theme, but with a white background. This looks more like the “old-school” diaspora* interface

<strong>Dark green</strong>

<strong>Magenta</strong>

<strong>Egyptian blue</strong>

Your pod might have created some custom themes. If so, they’ll show up in the list along with our default themes.

Note: the rest of this tutorial series shows screenshots from the desktop interface to illustrate the features in diaspora*. Some features are not yet available in the mobile interface. When this is the case, you’ll need to click <span class="click">Toggle mobile</span> in the drawer in order to be able to use this feature. We’re sure you’ll be able to work out where the differences are – it’s not difficult!

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