A 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-themed online social network Diaspora was found dead on the weekend at San Francisco according to the San Francisco coroner’s office report on Monday. Ilya Zhitomirskiy is one of four founders of Diaspora that serves as a “privacy-aware, user-controlled” social network as a rival of one of the world greatest social networks, Facebook. Dispora is a non-profit project, which showed in the Internet with its source code last year. The social network site raised $200,000 in just 39 days last year but ran out of cash recently and asked for new donations.
The site was launched a year ago by Zhitomirskiy and three fellow students at New York University. Facebook’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said he donated an undisclosed sum to the project. The fledgling social network’s home page at diasp.org on Monday featured a picture of a giant dandelion going to seed next to an image of Zhitomirskiy seated in a classroom. Beneath the image was his name and “1989-2011.” Diaspora expressed its sadness in a short Twitter message that included a link to a story about Zhitomirskiy’s apparent suicide on Saturday. A statement by co-founder Peter Shurman said: “We’ll all miss Ilya more than we can say. Ilya was a great friend and a brilliant person, a visionary whose work for a better future online brought hope to many people.”
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