3 ms·
It seems like even though your project is further ahead, Diaspora is getting more press. Why is that so?
by makmanalp 16y ago
It seems like even though your project is further ahead, Diaspora is getting more press. Why is that so?
- michaelchisari 16y agoInertia, and a misunderstanding of open source. People are seeing Diaspora through the lens of a Facebook competitor. But the reality is much less sexy. It's not like Myspace vs. Facebook, it's more like Sendmail/SMTP vs. AOL. When those walls came down, there wasn't a major corporate battle, no intrepid garage programmer wizard standing against goliath, just the ability for anyone to run their own email server with a very low barrier to entry. That's what all open source social networking projects are building, but the tech press doesn't have a good template for reporting on that, and instead I think focus on something that fits their pre-defined narrative.