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I agree with you Andrew, I think Diaspora had a lot of good
publicity when they launched their idea but the follow-up has been
very poor and until they work the issues out, the service is going
nowhere fast.<br>
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Also, it's being oversold as an alternative to Facebook. I use
Facebook, I use Diaspora, but they are not alike. Diaspora has a
status feed, a very basic profile and that's about the extent of it.
Suitable for twitter/G+-like global conversations but not a tool I
could run my IRL social life from which is really where Facebook
works best.<br>
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Diaspora has become (so far) a distributed twitter clone but, unlike
Twitter or even Status.net, they haven't engaged the community very
well. They don't release their code so it's not easy to set up pods,
there is no API to speak of so there's no 3rd party software backing
it, and development has been diverted into trying to make
fundamental things like federation work, performance issues and
adding some non-functional polish instead of implementing big new
features which might rekindle some excitement for the project.<br>
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I don't mean to bring it down though, I still like the service, I
just don't think it's delivered on it's promises and I doubt it will
without a big push from behind.<br>
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On 20/04/12 18:39, Andrew Bates wrote:
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cite="mid:CAA=hupbOsQeCtC+=0pAQL1yfJA-VwmQaAhRP0EKLT6Gt=5vzdQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I'm not trying to start a flame bait here,
but...seriously?
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<div>And people in the Open Source community wonder why Diaspora
is a 'Diasaster'?</div>
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<div>If people that espouse Diaspora are only intending it to be
for an exclusive subset of users, then fair play - I've nothing
against that, and in fact that's exactly how I treat Google+
(the antidote to Facebook {from my perspective anyway}).</div>
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<div>But if people that espouse it, expect it to be adopted by
'the average joe', with barriers such as this, it's no wonder
that people would rather use Facebook.</div>
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<div>Maybe I'm misunderstanding something? I dunno. I'm sure
someone more knowledgeable will pipe up and put me in my place,
but as someone looking at this from a usability perspective,
this seems to be a MAJOR failing.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 April 2012 18:23, Bob Ham <span
dir="ltr"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rah@bash.sh"><rah@bash.sh></a></span> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:44 +0000, Hartley, Daniel wrote:<br>
> Hi guys. I want to join this diaspora network but
can't<br>
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I run a pod. You can sign up here and you don't need an
invite:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://pod.settrans.net/"
target="_blank">https://pod.settrans.net/</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Bob Ham <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rah@bash.sh"><rah@bash.sh></a><br>
Diaspora: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rah@pod.settrans.net">rah@pod.settrans.net</a><br>
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for (;;) { ++pancakes; }<br>
</font></span><br>
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