Open social networking: A look at the Diaspora pre-alpha code

Are you going to try Diaspora?

  • Yes, I'm going to try hosting my own seed

    Votes: 10 18.5%

  • Sure, I'll try it out now

    Votes: 9 16.7%

  • I'll wait for Release Candidates

    Votes: 12 22.2%

  • Yes (other: describe in thread)

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Facebook FTW!

    Votes: 7 13.0%

  • No I hate social networking

    Votes: 11 20.4%

  • No (post your reason in the thread)

    Votes: 4 7.4%
  • Total voters
    54
For a first developer release it is surprisingly good and I for one really hope that it does take off. I'll definitely do my part to promote it as far and wide as I can ;-D
 
I've joined a local node/seed thingy, don't have any contacts as of yet :(
 
sounds waaaay too complicated. How is this supposed to take on FB again?
 
I'd like to support it but Ruby and MongoDB? What the hell was wrong with PHP and MySQL?
 
Its far to complicated for my liking. Privacy on facebook is a problem but its so much easier to use than this.
 
I joined diasp.co.za now what. After all the hours I have spent building a presents on FB if Diaspora thinks I am going to do that all over again they better think again. For now FB is the only way for me.
 
hawker said:
I've joined a local node/seed thingy, don't have any contacts as of yet :(
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Feel free to PM me your username. The more connections, the better the testing :-).

DJ... said:
I'm reading the article as a non-geek thinking "wtf am I supposed to do?" Makes little sense to me...
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This is probably a good thing right now. Diaspora isn't nearly ready for the primetime yet. As a non-geek, all you need to do if you want to use Diaspora is find a node you like and register there.

Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to find contacts right now other than exchanging usernames like we exchange instant messaging nicknames.
 
Chillax, Faceboob took 7 months to get going, we're still getting to grips with this system.

This will be the first social self-linking network, and as such requires a bit of a lot of alternative thinking, but ultimately, not being tied into a regimen or rigid frame should free our interactivity (and create spam problems) but we're not quite sure where the money or the fun or the problems are (yet).

And, there's no rush, join later.
 
I wonder if ISPs or other companies will jump on this.

ISPs might like having more users locally hosted, as the majority of traffic is likely to be local. This also gives you a slight boost in security, knowing you ISP has an incentive in keeping your data secure (or not :p), unlike a free but unknown third party.

Getting critical mass would be next to impossible without excellent facebook integration though. Many people won't be bothered to move.
 
Not gonna happen, sorry. Facebook is too well established. Go up to someone in the street and try to convince them to use this instead, then watch them frown with confusion as to why they should sign up to a social networking site that nobody else uses.
 
Sounds very complicated. Farmville and mafia is a must! Yes i must congratulate these guys. Will always give the underdog a try. Facebook is well established, but it is also very simple, dont over complicate it .
 
Why all the hate for Ruby? It's a beautiful language.

And mongo promises is a _distributed_ nosql db. I'd guess that's one of the reasons they went for it.
 
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