I too think Diaspora will fail (got a blog post in the works with more specific reasoning) but I think this is a little too pessimistic. Sure they've got a lot

I too think Diaspora will fail (got a blog post in the works with more specific reasoning) but I think this is a little too pessimistic. Sure they've got a lot of money; which is not a good thing really. Sure their plan (as much as we have seen of it so far) has serious hurdles to overcome. Im pretty sure that it won't be the solution everyone is looking for. But we should let them give it a shot. Hell if they had come to me asking for $10K I'd have given it to them and let them at least try. There is technical merit in the idea. It is going to raise the profile of privacy in general and moving away from FB in particular. And at the end there will be things to take away and work with. It might even fluke out and take off - wierder things have happened. We can criticise now, but lets not judge.