The open-source plan done headlines progressing this year when Facebook was forced to facilitate its privacy settings, after they were criticised for being overly intricate and confusing.
The project, created by 4 US students, lifted $200,000 (140,000).
"We have Diaspora working, you similar to it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th," the group wrote on their blog.
The group mentioned they had outlayed the summer "building clear, contextual sharing".
"That means an discerning way for users to decide, and not observe deciding, what calm goes to their co-workers and what goes to their celebration buddies. We know that's a hard [user interface] complaint and you take it seriously."
The plan was proposed by 3 P.C. scientists and a mathematician from New York.
Their thought of office building it gained movement progressing this year during an heated time of critique of Facebook, the world's largest amicable network
"We wish to put users back in manage of what they share," Max Salzberg, a of the founders, told BBC News at the time.
The group incited to the fundraising site Kickstarter to elevate the $10,000 they thought they would must be erect the network.
In the finish the group lifted $200,642 from scarcely 6,500 people.
Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, reportedly donated to the project.
The primary let go on 15 September will be to "open-source" Diaspora, meaning that the group will make the underlying ethics existing for any person to see and modify.
Many think that it will be tough to dare Facebook, that right away has 500 million users and is currently estimated to be value $33bn.
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