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Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches Their Private Alpha With Some Bet Hedging
- pavs 16y agoYes, its right in the frontpage at this moment. Whats the point of this freaking submission? Does every story need a "TechCrunch version" to be submitted separately? It happens _all_ the time.
- b_emery 16y agoI'd chalk it up to a bland title in the other, which I bypassed several times even after reading your comment. Here's the link: https://joindiaspora.com/ https://joindiaspora.com/ I appreciate the commentary in techcrunch on their release. For example: Interestingly enough, it sounds as if Diaspora is heavily predicated on lists, which they call “aspects”. This is interesting because Facebook is going in the opposite direction, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that people on their service don’t want to make lists. Now I know why I hate the facebook UI!
- michaelchisari 16y agoCEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that people on their service don’t want to make lists. For the life of me, I can't figure out how they could make such an unusable UI, and then determine by it's non-use, the disinterest of their users. I can't tell if they're being disingenuous or ignorant. One need only look at the popularity of Gmail's labels, or other user experience with categorization to know that users have no issue making lists of their contacts or data.
- natrius 16y agoCategorizing emails is inherently simpler than categorizing your friends. It's so simple that you can automate a lot of it (though you could suggest friend lists by analyzing a user's relationships and existing lists). Beyond "family" and "work", friend lists are complicated.
- michaelchisari 16y agoIt depends on how categorization works. If it works more like labels (ie, I can add a friend to multiple groups), then it works great. If you have to choose only one group for a friend, then it breaks down immediately. And beyond that, privacy controls which allowed you to do "AND" type operators would make those even more useful. It's pretty easy to code, the hard part is a usable, intuitive UI, and I find it hard to believe that Facebook, with all their resources, can't come up with a way to solve that. And plus, even if a minority uses a feature like that, it's important enough to provide, because user education will result in a gradual adoption.
- natrius 16y agoIt works like labels, but it's still hard, and it's not that useful anyway. The new groups are a simpler concept that provide an easier way to share with a limited group of people. > And plus, even if a minority uses a feature like that, it's important enough to provide, because user education will result in a gradual adoption. Friend lists as they exist today allow users to limit the visibility of posts to the exact set of people the user wants to see them. From what Facebook has said, it seems like user education did not result in meaningful gradual adoption.
- jganetsk 16y ago"Share what you want, with who you want" Sorry to be a grammar troll, but shouldn't it be "whom"?
- carussell 16y agoNo, no. You share the "who", too.
- unicornporn 16y agoOK, so they were to hip for MySQL/PHP. How many shared hosting users have access to MongoDB + ROR? I say fail, as in failed decision.