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What Diaspora really needs now is some startup, some well-known developers, or the Diaspora crew themselves to stand up and say "Okay, now we're going to use th

by holman 16y ago

What Diaspora really needs now is some startup, some well-known developers, or the Diaspora crew themselves to stand up and say "Okay, now we're going to use this framework to build a very real social network." Until then, it's just some people building out some cool ideas. Don't get me wrong, that's great; it's just hard to rally around it without getting something concrete behind it.

thinkalone 16y ago
I'm not sure what the end product will look like or what the functionality will be, but when I think of "distributed social network" I'd like to see something like a HN node, a reddit node, a Digg node, a Slashdot node, etc., where they all communicate with each other and aggregate updates from all those platforms, so that if I make a comment or submit a story on one site, it shows up on the "social network" part of my profile across every other site. A bit like FriendFeed, I suppose. If large sites adopted it in that way, it could certainly become a "very real social network."
jmspring 16y ago
With the distributed instances, the focus on data portability, and open source nature of Diaspora one real use case that comes to mind is: - Diaspora would make a "social" add on to other sites, ie, just one component of larger specialized sites. Rather than creating "plug ins" for Diaspora, Diaspora becomes a plugin itself. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.
- templaedhel 16y ago
  I would like to see (and if I get the time, or a client who needs it I will look into creating) a dispora plugin for wordpress, as opposed to that dreaded buddypress. It (to me) would have the same appeal as disqus etc with you being able to use the same account to connect across the web, with different "seeds".
  - brandnewlow 16y ago
    What's wrong with Buddypress? Never heard a bad word about it myself. Haven't used it either, though.
- EGreg 16y ago
  I'm working on that ;-)

by holman 16y ago

thinkalone 16y ago

I'm not sure what the end product will look like or what the functionality will be, but when I think of "distributed social network" I'd like to see something like a HN node, a reddit node, a Digg node, a Slashdot node, etc., where they all communicate with each other and aggregate updates from all those platforms, so that if I make a comment or submit a story on one site, it shows up on the "social network" part of my profile across every other site. A bit like FriendFeed, I suppose. If large sites adopted it in that way, it could certainly become a "very real social network."

jmspring 16y ago

With the distributed instances, the focus on data portability, and open source nature of Diaspora one real use case that comes to mind is: - Diaspora would make a "social" add on to other sites, ie, just one component of larger specialized sites. Rather than creating "plug ins" for Diaspora, Diaspora becomes a plugin itself. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.

templaedhel 16y ago
I would like to see (and if I get the time, or a client who needs it I will look into creating) a dispora plugin for wordpress, as opposed to that dreaded buddypress. It (to me) would have the same appeal as disqus etc with you being able to use the same account to connect across the web, with different "seeds".
- brandnewlow 16y ago
  What's wrong with Buddypress? Never heard a bad word about it myself. Haven't used it either, though.
EGreg 16y ago
I'm working on that ;-)