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But the point is not Diaspora, the point is distributed social networking. Diaspora is raising awareness, it's bootstraping a movement around it, and it's cont

But the point is not Diaspora, the point is distributed social networking. Diaspora is raising awareness, it's bootstraping a movement around it, and it's contributing to the technology required to make distributed social networking possible (protocols, algorithms). Perhaps they'll be the Hurd of social networking. So long as there's a Linux, I say let them be the Hurd.

mgkimsal 15y ago
That wasn't a criticism, just an observation. It was a bit of a Rorschach statement - people have read in to it whatever they want. That said, I haven't really seen much from them in the way of developing protocols, etc. They had the money many other projects could've used to get farther, and what would have been better stewardship of the donations would have been to use that money to spearhead a movement between existing projects to interoperate and create formal standards. Instead, they spent several months and gave us insecure rails code. Now that is my criticism.
- rufibarbatus 15y ago
  Then we probably share very similar views? :-)
  - mgkimsal 15y ago
    I think I edited while you responded only to my rorschach comment. I added more substance after that.
  - rufibarbatus 15y ago
    Then we probably share very similar views? :-) --- EDIT: You make a very good point: for the money they got, they could be creating more value (or creating value differently). I'd prefer if they released a stripped-down 1.0 that anyone could dig into; right now, they're centralizing too many design decisions. As far as developing technology goes, a working proof of concept should be as good a starting point as any and that's what they're doing. (Sure: not the best practice out there, to develop first and document later, but in this particular arena, I'm a pathological satisficer: just get the bloody thing done.)

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But the point is not Diaspora, the point is distributed social networking. Diaspora is raising awareness, it's bootstraping a movement around it, and it's cont

by rufibarbatus 15y ago

mgkimsal 15y ago
That wasn't a criticism, just an observation. It was a bit of a Rorschach statement - people have read in to it whatever they want. That said, I haven't really seen much from them in the way of developing protocols, etc. They had the money many other projects could've used to get farther, and what would have been better stewardship of the donations would have been to use that money to spearhead a movement between existing projects to interoperate and create formal standards. Instead, they spent several months and gave us insecure rails code. Now that is my criticism.
- rufibarbatus 15y ago
  Then we probably share very similar views? :-)
  - mgkimsal 15y ago
    I think I edited while you responded only to my rorschach comment. I added more substance after that.
  - rufibarbatus 15y ago
    Then we probably share very similar views? :-) --- EDIT: You make a very good point: for the money they got, they could be creating more value (or creating value differently). I'd prefer if they released a stripped-down 1.0 that anyone could dig into; right now, they're centralizing too many design decisions. As far as developing technology goes, a working proof of concept should be as good a starting point as any and that's what they're doing. (Sure: not the best practice out there, to develop first and document later, but in this particular arena, I'm a pathological satisficer: just get the bloody thing done.)