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Seriously? What's the point of private invites to a social network? Who am I going to be networking with if I'm the only one of my friends with an invite? Be
by mikeryan 16y ago
Seriously? What's the point of private invites to a social network? Who am I going to be networking with if I'm the only one of my friends with an invite?
Better to do something like Facebook. Pick a small, manageable existing network (like Harvard or in this case NYU?) and allow those users to join.
- cryptoz 16y agoThis is exactly what killed Google Wave: lots of hype, followed by secret invites. A collaboration tool launched specifically disallowing collaboration. Stupid.
- jonknee 16y agoWhat killed Google Wave was that it was a confusing product without clear goals. The invite process probably extended its lifespan by hiding how poor it was to most of the public.
- mseebach 16y agoThat might well be a factor, but I, for one, decided against using Wave for three distinct occasions where I suspected it might have been a good fit, because I couldn't get invites for all stakeholders.
- ThomPete 16y agoIt might have killed Wave but it was what made Gmail a success.
- gfodor 16y agoNot the same thing, at all. Getting an invite with Gmail didn't mean you could only use Gmail to communicate with others who had received invites.
- generalk 16y agoHuh? That's not at all what made Gmail a succes. If I'm on Wave, and you're not on Wave, we can't use Wave together. That's the end of it. If I'm on Gmail and you're on AOLMail, we can email one another, and I can tell you how awesome Gmail is. Gmail was a well-defined product with obvious benefit. Wave wasn't, and to boot you couldn't immediately use it for its intended purposes.
- Wilduck 16y agoThis makes me think that Diaspora needs to be (or at least be moving towards) a "social protocol" like SMTP. Since something like this doesn't already exist, having a small user base may be helpful in providing feedback to developing one.
- michaelchisari 16y agoThere's ones in the works. Diaspora uses an amalgamation of protocols (webfinger, ostatus, a few others), Appleseed uses a homegrown protocol called QuickSocial, but is designed to be protocol agnostic, and there are a number of participating projects (spearheaded by StatusNet) working on a federated social protocol. Who will win out is anybody's guess, but there's solid work progressing in that arena.
- omarchowdhury 16y agoDiaspora does a bad job of explaining their product. It is not a social network, but rather a open source software project for a standalone social networking application that I assume has the ability to interact with other Diaspora installs (called pods). But you also did a bad job of reading the post. They are sending alpha invites out for people to use their current software themselves, and potentially contribute changes. Not join a social network called Diaspora.
- mikeryan 16y agoI didn't read the post - because this thread didn't link to it.
- joe_the_user 16y agoYou help test the software and maybe network experimental early adopters. Diaspora doesn't necessarily have to follow the same rout as Facebook.