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However, that doesn't mean people won't end up using both. Free software types will gravitate to something like Diaspora and so will their community friends. Yo

However, that doesn't mean people won't end up using both. Free software types will gravitate to something like Diaspora and so will their community friends. You may not get every community off of facebook, but you may get a few. I can see political communities moving to Diaspora, I can see technical communities gravitating/dual use with twitter... No, it will probably never be as big as either, but that doesn't mean it won't fill a niche.

orblivion 17y ago
The sad thing is that full-time individual adoption of a social network requires mass adoption the social network. That is to say, not having everybody and their grandma on Diaspora will be a fairly big downside compared to Facebook. As for having both, personally, I'm looking for a way to not use Facebook at all and still get the benefits. Right now I just don't use my Facebook account. Having Diaspora would be a small improvement, but if it's a lukewarm thing, my friends will be more active on Facebook, and won't be that active on Diaspora. Maybe there'll be a Diaspora app for Facebook, ha. I'm not familiar with Facebook, is there a way to do this without giving Facebook all the data you were trying to hide from it in the first place? Actually, another thing I just thought of. If we could get people to just create the Diaspora accounts, and just connect it to their Twitter, Flickr, and so on, it may be enough. The updates will happen automatically. I'll still be able to browse my friends' pages, which will be updated without them thinking about it.
- Pistos2 17y ago
  There are already aggregation sites, such as FriendFeed.