I'm in a search for social network development in Ruby and Diaspora* cought my attention. Though the idea is have a social network 'hosted' by many and owned by none is great, I don't quite understand if I can use it to make the social part of a custom site. And whether this custom site being unrelated to the network and using it's code only to support the site, or will it be integrated.
Last, can the design be changed? to fit this custom site.
I tried to find information on their FAQ and github docs, but nothing on these terms.