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I'm interested to know how they have been perceived as failure. I think this is all very relative, and failure is a strong word. Github still have 1 day old com
by tamersalama 15y ago
I'm interested to know how they have been perceived as failure. I think this is all very relative, and failure is a strong word. Github still have 1 day old commit and the community is apparently still active.
- click170 15y agoFailure in this context likely means "is not attracting large swathes of Facebook users" though frankly I think that's but one measure of the success of a social networking website.
- hollerith 15y agoWell, a social network that is used by only a small fraction of one's friends and potential friends is not very useful.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoNot necessarily. If you can make a federated social network that can interoperate with the networks people already use, people can migrate to it incrementally.
- thomasgerbe 15y agoI suppose it is when the narrative is the next Facebook killer which the media fostered and perpetuated creating some unreasonable expectation for their team.
- josteink 15y agoAs far as failures come, the only thing I have heard about diaspora are the following things: * Source-code full of freshman's mistakes and security exploits. Basically not-to-be-trusted quality code, released to the public for deployment. * All money invested in the project wasted without anything to show for. * I know absolutely nobody using diaspora, expect one person. * This person attempted to invite me, and diaspora failed to send me the invite email. Now he cannot invite me again. It's a laughing stock. For the parts of the internet which has even heard about it. Which is the minority of the internet. As a social network this is a failure on absolutely every aspect I can find measures for. The goals were admirable, but goals alone wont win you any credit. You have to get there as well. Diaspora didn't and most likely wont.