Wow, lots of talk here about a service that none seem to have used. You all are probably way more involved in creating software and doing private finance than

Wow, lots of talk here about a service that none seem to have used. You all are probably way more involved in creating software and doing private finance than I will ever be, so I can't speak to those areas. I've been using Diaspora for about a month now - maybe a little while longer and while there are growing pains, I've been really impressed with the way the service works. While there are lots of people who use Diaspora and Facebook, I ( hopefully ) deleted my Facebook account as I got tired of being the product and use Diaspora exclusively. And like I said, I'm no tech guru. Any operational questions that I posted were answered promptly and courteously. The folks there are still claiming its alpha, and it works pretty well for me. Oh, and to the registration question - I Scroogled ' diaspora pod ' and the first listing was for https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supporte.... The fourth listing is the pod that I belong to diasp.org - I had no problem signing up the first day I tried. Try it for yourself and then let us know what you thought