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Something like WordPress + bbPress (or your own solution) = DiasporaProject.org?

• EGreg 13y ago
  Well, Diaspora definitely was a project I was aware of -- I had started a year before those guys put up a kickstarter page. They were undergrads in the same school I went to - Courant at NYU. So yeah it was a good idea. But you probably won't believe how much planning and architecture went into a project like this. This is far beyond simple status updates and sharing. As far as being distributed, we were just careful that all the data was stored by one or another "publisher", so we can scale up as far as we need using sharding. In the future we plan to make a distributed communication protocol between the nodes so they don't have to trust each other. We applied for a patent on some aspects of a distributed social network: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469 http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469 so you can read about some things that went into it there, although the patent is mostly for having defensible IP to show investors, as well as the possibility of licensing that stuff to Google+, etc.