Good post. It comes down to inexperience, and I am sure we have all been through it ("pfffft.. I could do that in 4 hours" -- younger me). There were red flags

Good post. It comes down to inexperience, and I am sure we have all been through it ("pfffft.. I could do that in 4 hours" -- younger me). There were red flags in their kickstarter post: * "We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora" * "Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG) your pictures, videos, and more." * "We have a plan, a bunch of ideas and the programming chops to build Diaspora. What we need is the time it takes to iron out a powerful, secure, and elegant piece of software. Daniel, Ilya, Raphael, and Maxwell are all ready to trade our internships and summer jobs for three months totally focused on building Diaspora" * "We promise to you that Diaspora will be aGPL software which will released at the end of the summer." They also said that no similar system exists (they do)