"These guys are at least trying to do something in a market where almost everyone else has assumed Facebook has won." Considering they were pretty much given $

"These guys are at least trying to do something in a market where almost everyone else has assumed Facebook has won." Considering they were pretty much given $200,000 via a site which NEVER allows startups on their site (what does Diaspora have to do with the creative arts again?), and widely promoted themselves via mainstream media sources without even having written a line of code, I don't think it's unfair to have extremely high expectations from the get go. It's not like it's some random bunch of guys who posted stuff in progress on HN.