What a joke. Doesn't work on Windows. Fine, I'll buy that. Doesn't support IE. How hard is it to just use a good CSS Reset these days? We knew this wasn't going to kill Facebook, but it's not even going to get laughed at if only 2 people can use it.
Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
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Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#12What an improvement over the tedious Java version which would run with "java -jar diaspora.jar" (or a double click on Mac/Windows)!
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#13Most people won't have to do this. Most people will just join an existing site. Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) and that it lets you export your data. It remains to be seen if they make the system of "aspects" simple enough. That said, it's a little annoying that a supposedly open product c…
> Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking I had to go through the slides to understand this: basically, it said in the case of a woman they did research on, she commented and liked photos of her friends at the gay bar, but her ten-year-old students could see those comments too. The thesis was that a bunch of her social groups that shouldn't interact were forced to…
It created "Aspects", or groups of friends, and you post things to specific aspects or to all aspects. Only the people in that aspect will see updates.
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#14Most people won't have to do this. Most people will just join an existing site. Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) and that it lets you export your data. It remains to be seen if they make the system of "aspects" simple enough. That said, it's a little annoying that a supposedly open product c…
It sounds like it will get simpler. From the site: "We deploy and run Diaspora with a deployment tool called sod, which currently only supports CentOS. We use Rackspace Cloud, but you can point sod at any CentOS machine. Sod is unfinished and probably has hardcoded configuration for our servers. It is not ready for use." I imagine that once it has been around for a while, you'll find Diaspora packaged in all the majo…
The problem is that if there's a high barrier to entry there might be a "Google Wave" effect - people joining, finding out they have no friends on the service, and never using it. What the distributed social network market needs is a network that has an actual launch with a product, and get as much press as Diaspora did when they announced, but have an actual product.
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#15Most people won't have to do this. Most people will just join an existing site. Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) and that it lets you export your data. It remains to be seen if they make the system of "aspects" simple enough. That said, it's a little annoying that a supposedly open product c…
> Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking I had to go through the slides to understand this: basically, it said in the case of a woman they did research on, she commented and liked photos of her friends at the gay bar, but her ten-year-old students could see those comments too. The thesis was that a bunch of her social groups that shouldn't interact were forced to…
They've tried to solve the blurring social contexts problem of facebook with something called 'aspects.' Aspects are user defined sets based on social context, eg 'work', 'school'. You can choose to make any activity on diaspora visible to certain aspects, and defining aspects is supposed to be pretty central to the diaspora interface—although I haven't ever used it so I can't really say for sure.
Facebook kind of solved this problem in the meantime by making facebook groups more intuitive. When diaspora was first announced, this social context issue was perceived as a bigger problem with facebook than it is now.
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#16Someone stick it on the EC2 public instances list... There's your 3-step setup...
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#17One of the big disadvantages to using web frameworks like Rails or Django for open web applications is that the deployment is very tedious, at least compared with something like PHP. Something that requires having root access to a *nix server and takes 25 steps to install is never going to be mainstream - you need something that a 13-year-old could put up on a shared hosting account (i.e. phpBB) to really get tractio…
Yup. Appleseed is LAMP and built to work on shared hosts, and it installs in a few minutes.
That was by design from the beginning. I considered using Python or Ruby at points, but PHP was the easiest way to satisfy those requirements
Re: Join Diaspora with these 25 simple steps (github)
#18One of the big disadvantages to using web frameworks like Rails or Django for open web applications is that the deployment is very tedious, at least compared with something like PHP. Something that requires having root access to a *nix server and takes 25 steps to install is never going to be mainstream - you need something that a 13-year-old could put up on a shared hosting account (i.e. phpBB) to really get tractio…
I deploy django+myapp+modules in to a virtualenv[1] without any permissions other than default user perms in a Unix box. The only 'tricky' bit is setting up the database, that requires more permissions (and for good reasons).
It's completely possible to make to make it simple in any language. I agree with the point that currently the Diaspora installion instructions are a bit excessive though.
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