They should merge the project into RetroShare - http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project
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Re: Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
When is the last time you took on Facebook and won? I applaud these guys -- at least they tried to improve the world in some way. I don't think HN should stigmatize failure.
so have dozens of others with their own federated/distributed social network projects. diaspora seemed to ignore these projects/people, even though technically many were ahead of what diaspora put out after several months (things like, most other projects didn't have fundamental security flaws that could be found in any webdev n00b book in 10 minutes). Diaspora go the hype via kickstarter - they got the drama - but t…
+1. Nowadays there are zillions of alternatives to Diaspora:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
I believe that to overcome Facebook we should not build just an equivalent, with similar features but free/open & distributed. "To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete" (R. B. Fuller) Personally I think we should eventually swift, in the social networks arena, from communication to collaboration... as they do in http://kune.cc
Re: Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project
#133TL;DR, "After years, and hundreds of thousands of your dollars, we couldn't do it. Can you code it, too?" Don't mistake me; I'm a huge fan of what they were trying to do. I'm just really, deeply disappointed in their execution.
What would you have done differently? (I'm serious. I'd like to know.) One of the tough things for anyone aiming to replicate Facebook is that Facebook used some devious methods to get up and running. Zuckerberg misapproprited hundreds of photos of his classmates and their personal information, and then sent them provocative emails that would cause most students to check on what's been posted about them, or what's be…
And how do you make a social app, you can use from anywhere with good UI without webserver/client ?
Moreover web servers are compatible with peer-to-peer and provide application agnostic connectors.