[Bradford] Diaspora* the social medium

[John R. Hudson]

Sorry, you probably did - I was following my faulty memory rather than
looking at the meeting report!

John
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On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 19:41 +0100, David Bolton wrote:
> Hi Darren, John,
> 
> Libertree is most certainly NOT a fork of Diaspora!
> 
> I thought I'd already put that right in the write-up ;-)
> 
> It is true that one of the two main Libertree Devs, "Pistos" (who lives 
> in Montreal), was responsible for a forked version of Diaspora - which 
> ran much better than the original code base.  For a while, several 
> Diaspora "Podmins" ran the "Pistosfork" code in preference to the main 
> version - and many users were looking forward to the incorporation of 
> the extra features that it offered back into the main branch.  However, 
> the "core" programmers at the Diaspora project seemed to think of 
> themselves as a business startup rather than a FOSS project, and shut 
> out all of the improvements.  By the time the core programmers had all 
> fallen out with each other, Pistos had given up trying to offer help - 
> and went off to start a project of his own, programmed from scratch.
> 
> With the help of a German programmer named "Rekado" - who was then 
> living in Shanghai (but is now back in Germany) - the Libertree system 
> started to be developed.  Development is continuing, but at the same 
> time it is all quite usable - and fun to use  ;-)
> 
> David
> 
> On 05/10/14 20:21, John R. Hudson wrote:
> > Hi Darren,
> >
> > If you look at the October 2013 meeting report, you will see some
> > information about Libertree which is a Diaspora fork. David who gave the
> > talk may be able to enlighten you more if you are interested.
> >
> > John
> > --
> > On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 19:28 +0100, Darren Menachem Drapkin wrote:
> >> Has anyone tried out the Diaspora* system, other than me. I have
> >> relatively few touch points in social media, so have been browsing round it
> >> doing the silly things I do when I am not sure of how to behave.
> >>   If I understand correctly, I have an account with the main UK server and
> >> have a basic notion of the markup it uses and have been spending the
> >> afternoon typing flippant tosh in public.
> >>
> >> links:--
> >>
> >> < https://diasporafoundation.org/ > main promo site
> >> < http://podupti.me/ > list of running servers (pods)
> >> < https://joindiaspora.co.uk/ > the main UK server (pod)
> >> < https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Main_Page > coders wiki
> >
> >
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