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Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods ) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising.
A diaspora ( / daɪˈæspərə / dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. [3] [4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. [5] [6] [7]
San Francisco, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Software developer, entrepreneur. Known for. Diaspora Co-Founder. Ilya Zhitomirskiy (12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011) [1] was an American software developer and entrepreneur. [2] Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that ...
The Messiah in Judaism ( Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized : māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, [1] [2] and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally anointed with holy ...
A meshulach ( Hebrew: מְשׁוּלָּח, romanized : meshullaḥ; plural: meshulachim ), also known as a shaliach ( Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, romanized : shali'aḥ) [1] or SHaDaR ( Hebrew: שַׁדָּ״ר, acronym for שָׁלִיחַ דְרַבָּנָן ), [note 1] was an emissary sent to the Diaspora to raise funds ( ḥalukka) for the ...
The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized : təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. [3] [4]
Vietnam is marked red. Darker blue represent a larger number of overseas Vietnamese people by percent. Overseas Vietnamese ( Vietnamese: người Việt hải ngoại, Việt kiều or kiều bào) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in ...
This terminology has also been reflected within some groups of the Rusyn diaspora. For example, the popular newspaper of the Byzantine (Greek) Catholic Church in the U.S. for decades known as the ‘Greek Catholic Union Messenger’, used the term Carpatho-Russian up until the 1950s (by the 1960s the term Ruthenian came into vogue).