OneSocialWeb: We’re Ahead Of Diaspora In The Creation Of An ‘Open Facebook’

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 13, 2010, 6:49 PM UTC

aquinn wrote: post #8

mambodog wrote: post #6

When that spreadsheet of Facebook alternatives was posted the other day, this one ticked the most boxes. Taking a look at their site though, I was greeted by talk of protocols and invited to 'get code'. I know its just early days, but this isn't how you get people using your social network. I want to jump right in. This... is not what I want.

Yeah, it would be nice if they had an open server that allowed you to sign up and check it out. There's nothing stopping anybody from setting one up though.

Post by orblivion » Thu, May 13, 2010, 8:29 PM UTC

Post by misuba » Thu, May 13, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

teej wrote: post #16

misuba wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that Diaspora have gotten all that attention actually suggests that they have better odds to succeed - the biggest obstacles to a Facebook replacement aren't technical, after all, but social. They're starting by giving themselves a human face, just like MySpace did.

In my experience I have not seen a correlation between meda hype and success.

Post by inboulder » Fri, May 14, 2010, 1:39 AM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #26

inboulder wrote: post #15

OneSocialWeb, Diaspora et all are solving the wrong problem but are getting attention because of the general grumblings about Facebook. The issue causing the most Facebook user dissent is privacy. Open protocols do little to address this; having your whole social graph (think embarrassing pics) sitting on any server out of your control, whoever the owner, is the problem. What is needed is a system that guarantees pri…

I think Diaspora may have this one covered: http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html "Distributed Encrypted Backups"

Post by WorkerBee » Fri, May 14, 2010, 8:17 AM UTC

wmf wrote: post #24

WorkerBee wrote: post #5

What I said in comments on the other story ( http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138 ): "When I last thought about it, I became convinced that we don't need an single implementation , we need standards for multiple implementations to interact. Stuff like RSS, OpenId, OAuth, etc. It's a lot less glamorous to work to these, and to try to push them forward, but it's a lot more useful."

After Diaspora works, it should be easy enough to standardize its protocol. Fixing a non-working, prematurely-standardized protocol is likely to cost more.