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I worked on a decentralized social network for a while, but eventually gave up on it because it was impossible to get traction (especially since other open sour

• wfn 13y ago
  Did you end up open sourcing the parts of the thing that you ended up implementing/writing? Seems like a waste to just throw it into a trash bin. (But of course there may be nuances / it may be hard to do that, etc.) Non-working code on github and a blog post explaining what has been done is imho >> nothing!
  • Udo 13y ago
    No, it was open source from the beginning - one of my hobby projects. I believe open source is the only way something like this can work at all. I had some early adopters who used the prototype, which motivated me initially. As I spent some time developing the actual version, people drifted away (mostly back to Facebook). In hindsight, I should not have thrown the prototype away - big mistake. When I tried to get other people interested the answer was basically either "you'll pry Facebook out of my cold dead hands" or (sometimes literally) "why are you wasting your time on this stupid shit when Diaspora exists?". At the time Diaspora had just gotten funding and people were actually really hostile or condescending towards the idea that someone was working on anything else. After that I basically suspended my efforts. I might eventually get back to it when/if fancy strikes.