[Liverpool] Diaspora

[David Nelson]

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.

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.

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.

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.


On 20/04/12 18:39, Andrew Bates wrote:
> I'm not trying to start a flame bait here, but...seriously?
>
> And people in the Open Source community wonder why Diaspora is a 
> 'Diasaster'?
>
> 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}).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On 20 April 2012 18:23, Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:44 +0000, Hartley, Daniel wrote:
>     > Hi guys. I want to join this diaspora network but can't
>
>     I run a pod.  You can sign up here and you don't need an invite:
>
>     https://pod.settrans.net/
>
>     --
>     Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>
>     Diaspora: rah at pod.settrans.net <mailto:rah at pod.settrans.net>
>
>     for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
>
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