[Bradford] Diaspora* the social medium

[David Bolton]

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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