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> If just 5% of the people who bitched about Diaspora "failing" or tried to build their own competitor from scratch just contributed instead, then I think we'd

by zalew 13y ago

> If just 5% of the people who bitched about Diaspora "failing" or tried to build their own competitor from scratch just contributed instead, then I think we'd be much farther along. What incentive does anyone have in contributing to a project that burned 200k and failed? Building something on your own with a clean slate and 100% share in the whole process from ground up is an obvious choice IMO (besides the general idea of pursuing 'the next facebook only better because orwell').

melling 13y ago
Hasn't this already been answered in a TED talk? http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...
rogerbraun 13y ago
I contributed this release cycle. My incentive is that Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features or has a few warts. I tried to fix one of these and it's now in the new release and Diaspora is a little better. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it?
- zalew 13y ago
  > Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features like people using it?
  - rogerbraun 13y ago
    I invited all my friends, nearly all joined. It's not impossible.
    - Ziomislaw 13y ago
      That is the spirit, you will never change anything by just grumbling. I think we all realize how difficult is to convince non-technical people that something is dangerous to use, but we shouldn't give up.
hannibal5 13y ago
How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora and created diaspora account. It seems to work fine and there seems to bet 20+ diaspora domains running there.
- zalew 13y ago
  > How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora there
davexunit 13y ago
I have contributed to Diaspora. The community is friendly and helpful. They've already built a lot and progress is happening quite fast these days. Choosing to re-invent the wheel is a silly choice. And even if you don't want to contribute to Diaspora, there's also Pump.io if you'd like that more.

by zalew 13y ago

melling 13y ago

Hasn't this already been answered in a TED talk? http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...

rogerbraun 13y ago

I contributed this release cycle. My incentive is that Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features or has a few warts. I tried to fix one of these and it's now in the new release and Diaspora is a little better. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it?

zalew 13y ago
> Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features like people using it?
- rogerbraun 13y ago
  I invited all my friends, nearly all joined. It's not impossible.
  - Ziomislaw 13y ago
    That is the spirit, you will never change anything by just grumbling. I think we all realize how difficult is to convince non-technical people that something is dangerous to use, but we shouldn't give up.

hannibal5 13y ago

How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora and created diaspora account. It seems to work fine and there seems to bet 20+ diaspora domains running there.

zalew 13y ago
> How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora there

davexunit 13y ago

I have contributed to Diaspora. The community is friendly and helpful. They've already built a lot and progress is happening quite fast these days. Choosing to re-invent the wheel is a silly choice. And even if you don't want to contribute to Diaspora, there's also Pump.io if you'd like that more.