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So does that mean that Diaspora dream of replacing Facebook is dead? A Facebook login option and .io domain points strongly in that direction.

by casca 14y ago

nnash 14y ago
This is still there http://diasporaproject.org/ http://diasporaproject.org/
- mbs348 14y ago
  makr actually came out of D... we started by trying some completely different features, but figured it was best for both to try them as separate things. Lots of people like D the way it is, so we spun it out into it's own thing.
  - shmerl 14y ago
    Lot's of people feel that D* is unpolished and lacks advertised features like moving from pod to pod, real solid federation and so on. D* developers said they didn't abandon those, but they surely look distracted with too much UI stuff in Mark.
  - seagreen 14y ago
    That was kind of a badass decision, by the way. It can't have been easy to sacrifice a pre existing user base for Makr.
vandershraaf 14y ago
I think they are delegating the task to app.net
- mcantelon 14y ago
  Except app.net is neither distributed nor open source.
  - seagreen 14y ago
    Yeah, this needs to be made entirely clear. App.net is a change in degree, trying to make another twitter, but better. Diaspora and identi.ca are changes in kind, trying to make something different to replace fb/twitter.
    - vandershraaf 14y ago
      Regardless of how different Diaspora is from Facebook, they still tried to do the "social network" better. I'm pretty sure every startup wants to make stuff less suck. By the way I remember last time when Diaspora first surfaced as the real alternative of Facebook and I was kinda excited with it. For the first time I can customized everything I want from my social network. But then the project run out of any traction and suddenly just disappeared. So I guess, while we can dream big and aim big, the big stuff would come up eventually and not just boom in the first place (as Google comes out from home garage and Facebook comes out from college dorm). It's a big disturbing how App.net just really booming in its first release but I wish them the best and hope they will succeed.
dj2stein9 14y ago
They only had funding for about a year or so. And with a problem of the scale they were tackling there was simply no way it would've been successful. Everyone could see what was going to happen a mile away. They'd work on some flimsy FB clone, nobody would use it, and they'd move onto real jobs or start something else.

So does that mean that Diaspora dream of replacing Facebook is dead? A Facebook login option and .io domain points strongly in that direction.

by casca 14y ago

So does that mean that Diaspora dream of replacing Facebook is dead? A Facebook login option and .io domain points strongly in that direction.

nnash 14y ago

This is still there http://diasporaproject.org/ http://diasporaproject.org/

mbs348 14y ago
makr actually came out of D... we started by trying some completely different features, but figured it was best for both to try them as separate things. Lots of people like D the way it is, so we spun it out into it's own thing.
- shmerl 14y ago
  Lot's of people feel that D* is unpolished and lacks advertised features like moving from pod to pod, real solid federation and so on. D* developers said they didn't abandon those, but they surely look distracted with too much UI stuff in Mark.
- seagreen 14y ago
  That was kind of a badass decision, by the way. It can't have been easy to sacrifice a pre existing user base for Makr.

vandershraaf 14y ago

I think they are delegating the task to app.net

mcantelon 14y ago
Except app.net is neither distributed nor open source.
- seagreen 14y ago
  Yeah, this needs to be made entirely clear. App.net is a change in degree, trying to make another twitter, but better. Diaspora and identi.ca are changes in kind, trying to make something different to replace fb/twitter.
  - vandershraaf 14y ago
    Regardless of how different Diaspora is from Facebook, they still tried to do the "social network" better. I'm pretty sure every startup wants to make stuff less suck. By the way I remember last time when Diaspora first surfaced as the real alternative of Facebook and I was kinda excited with it. For the first time I can customized everything I want from my social network. But then the project run out of any traction and suddenly just disappeared. So I guess, while we can dream big and aim big, the big stuff would come up eventually and not just boom in the first place (as Google comes out from home garage and Facebook comes out from college dorm). It's a big disturbing how App.net just really booming in its first release but I wish them the best and hope they will succeed.

dj2stein9 14y ago

They only had funding for about a year or so. And with a problem of the scale they were tackling there was simply no way it would've been successful. Everyone could see what was going to happen a mile away. They'd work on some flimsy FB clone, nobody would use it, and they'd move onto real jobs or start something else.