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Not really. Diaspora already had most of its design in place, including the drag-and-drop 'Circles' feature (called Aspects in Diaspora), before Google+ was eve
by glassx 15y ago
Not really. Diaspora already had most of its design in place, including the drag-and-drop 'Circles' feature (called Aspects in Diaspora), before Google+ was even announced.
- libraryatnight 15y agoYes, exactly. Many Diaspora users were posting about Google+ ripping them off.
- michaelchisari 15y agoWhich is pretty ridiculous, since Appleseed had circles since 2007, and I know Diaspora was aware of Appleseed before they released any code. Also, I spoke with someone from Google about Appleseed's circles two months before Diaspora even released any code. Not that I'm claiming that Google+ stole Appleseed's idea for circles, since they put out a presentation in June 2010 talking about social segmentation from a theoretical perspective, and even if they did, it wouldn't raise much ire, since I stole the idea from Livejournal's friends list, which it had since, what, 2000? There was a lot of precedence for groupings of social relationships, and honestly, I was shocked at the hubris of the Diaspora* team to claim that Google had pilfered them for inspiration.