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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the founders of the social networking site Diaspora, has died. He was 22. It has not yet been determind yet how he passed. Diaspora, an alternative to Facebook, was founded by four New York University students in 2010. The site lets users keep control over their photos, videos and status updates while sharing them with friends.

Zhitomirskiy co-founded the website with Raphael Sofaer, Dan Grippi, and Max Salzber. The group raised more than $200,000 for the project by collecting contributions through the website Kickstarter.

According to Zhitomirskiy’s profile on Diaspora, he’s “super passionate about building a world of hacker spaces, maker culture, sharing, cycling, and life satisfaction.” Zhitomirskiy said he and his co-founders didn’t set out to make money when they created Diaspora but to instead provide an “open platform” for users. “There’s something deeper than making money off stuff,” Zhitomirskiy said. “Being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.”

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