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Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

#121

I like it thus far, unsure if mobile is supported yet but if I can get the page on my android chrome browser than it should work

There are several Android clients, including Dandelion, found in the F-Droid repository. I think there's one in the Google Play store as well. No iOS clients, but the mobile site works quite nicely.

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server. The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable pirac…

Playing devils advocate here, but I also kind of believe this... There is no such thing as privacy in the social network. It is foolhardy to assume it is even possible. Even a real life social network relies on trust, trust that can be broken very easily and totally outside of your control. Maybe the answer is to accept that privacy isn't a real thing and stop sharing things, even in what you assume is a protected en…

Sure but the real-life equivalent of that would be God telling Nike what kind of shoes you and your friend were talking about in secret.

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

#124

What are the technical challenges of handling an influx of dozens of new users?

I'm assuming your use of the word "dozens" is a joke, but if not, Diaspora can handle it very well. Their population doubled after Cambridge Analytica hit the news - and within a month or so they lost all those new users: https://nerdpol.ch/posts/e8532ca04b2f013617bf52540061b601

Let's see if they can hold on to the current batch. Diaspora is actually quite usable and stable. I haven't dealt with any issues since I began using it. The docs and non-existent API suck, though.

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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Wow this thread escalated quickly. Well US is in many ways slowly starting to look like Nazy germany in its beginings. I hope this turns around because i really dont want nuke war. But it seems germany atleast tries to do something and learn from the past. While US in its hard defense of indivilualism (its just illusion btw) is really loosing it. I mean some people in us gov now are literaly evil and want to harm oth…

> denounces escalation > escalates further.

I think he was admiring how quickly it escalated and wanted to help out.

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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Are you allowed to deny the Holocaust?

If you can provide scientific proof that it didnt happen, yes. Otherwise no

Ehhhh, you're "not even" allowed to investigate it, so this one doesn't really work

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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> What does it have to do with living in Germany? Americans are often "horrified" at free speech in Germany because glorifying Nazis and terrorists is forbidden there (as in France and a handful other European countries). My take is that this platform at least probably allows posting pictures with nipples, unlike most US-based services.

Wow this thread escalated quickly. Well US is in many ways slowly starting to look like Nazy germany in its beginings. I hope this turns around because i really dont want nuke war. But it seems germany atleast tries to do something and learn from the past. While US in its hard defense of indivilualism (its just illusion btw) is really loosing it. I mean some people in us gov now are literaly evil and want to harm oth…

> I mean some people in us gov now are literaly evil and want to harm others. Thats never a good sign.

Now? Wow. That is incredibly naive.

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

#129

For a website called JoinDiaspora, I'm surprised I can't find out how to join Diaspora from the homepage.

PodUptime is amomg the better pickers out there.

https://podupti.me

Specifically the pod wizard (2nd green button, upper left).

Re: Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

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> denounces escalation > escalates further.

I think he was admiring how quickly it escalated and wanted to help out.

"Is the thread on fire?"

"... it could be more on fire."

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