they didn't hype shit-- they put up a kickstarter (which is, indeed, for projects that "don't have anything usable" yet), and it got picked up by the NYT. and

they didn't hype shit-- they put up a kickstarter (which is, indeed, for projects that "don't have anything usable" yet), and it got picked up by the NYT. and diaspora is still one of the most contributed-to open source projects in the world. so no, it is not the case that "nobody really contributes"