Diaspora: One Month In

how can average people like me help out?

As an aside, it's interesting to see how similar their message passing protocol is to one I'm beginning to plan out, though for a completely different application. Kinda like a "push to origin; fetch from origin" (from git).

EDIT: And hmm, every time Diaspora comes up, people start to say something about a "hype cycle" or something. I don't really know what that is, but it's rather obnoxious.

How about we don't take every mention of Diaspora as an invitation to count the ways they're sure to fail; because of the hypecycle or motorhyper or the gnarly-toothed funderrazer…etc.

To me, this is an interesting update about a curious project. Keep it going!

I think the "release often" philosophy is a good one, but too often and you just open yourself up to "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc"

I think knuckle down, code a bunch of good stuff then show it off. Of course you'll still get the complaints, but it'll be a lot clearer to a lot more people how it works and the potential it has.

All that said, all they've shown us here is a very simple demo, we have no understanding of the underlying message passing protocol and its robustness. It does look promising, but looks of course...