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# diaspora\* federation protocol
The purpose of this document is to specify the communications that go on between diaspora\* servers (and other servers
supporting this protocol). If you experience any issues, feel free to [get in touch][communication] with us.
## Federation support
This document specifies the future protocol for diaspora. diaspora\* release 0.6.3.0 and newer has support to receive
[entities][entities] with this protocol, but still sends entities with an older protocol. Starting with diaspora\*
release 0.7.0.0 this protocol is fully supported.
## Implementations
An implementation of this protocol is available as a Ruby Gem under the AGPL [on Github][github]. This is the library used by the diaspora* project.
The [Friendica][friendica] project also has [its implementation in PHP][phpimplementation].
[communication]: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/How_we_communicate
[entities]: {{ site.baseurl }}/entities/
[github]: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora_federation
[friendica]: https://github.com/friendica/friendica
[phpimplementation]: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/develop/src/Protocol/Diaspora.php