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A distributed data exchange system with everyone running their own servers will never get anywhere, look at what a terrible failure email was. </sarcasm> Far,
by msy 16y ago
A distributed data exchange system with everyone running their own servers will never get anywhere, look at what a terrible failure email was. </sarcasm>
Far, far too early to tell frankly. The pace of development at the moment is frenetic, when things start stabilising then we'll see whether it swims or sinks. I am however hopeful, if it gets any traction at all it stands to become a platform on which a panopoly of awesome things could be built, free from the limitations of the monetise-your-personal-life motivation of Facebook.
- Tichy 16y agoThe other day I thought that maybe building a social network on top of email would not be such a bad idea. Would it scale?
- psawaya 16y agoProbably. But what advantages would that give over Diaspora using XMPP?
- Tichy 16y agoThere might be a broader base of deployed email servers. It is easy to get an email account somewhere, and also easy to host your own email server. EMail might have been stress tested more, because of all the spam mail. I am not sure how common it is for XMPP to spread hundreds of messages per user in a short amount of time.
- lsb 16y agoIt depends on how you do it. If you're clumsy about privacy and UI, you might just make the next Google Buzz.
- aberkowitz 16y agoEmail is not made for finding other people. The same problem exists with Diaspora. There is no search to find people on other networks.
- Qz 16y agoFairly certain google would make it fairly easy, if Diaspora ever takes off.
- LaPingvino 16y agoWe have real life contacts, don't forget that. That will help a lot.
- aberkowitz 16y agoReal world contact helps the problem, but it doesn't solve the problem.
- stcredzero 16y agoThere's always Facebook and LinkedIn. I suspect Diaspora users will just use those like address books, at least at first. Even if Diaspora never supplants Facebook, it will be a good thing as an alternative.