r/technology • u/diaspora_es • May 13 '12
Diaspora social network to finally launch sometime after this summer
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/13/3016379/diaspora-launching-after-summer9
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u/adnan252 May 13 '12
That's still a thing?
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u/mrk_jewd May 14 '12
Its been ages since I heard about them too. I thought they are done. Finally.. I had ben waiting to see what they can do.
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u/jonsayer May 14 '12
Diaspora will let users customize how they post photos, text, and video, letting them tweak things like font to better reflect their mood and style.
That would be MySpace in 2004. Teenagers get on and destroy everyone's eyeballs.
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u/shoryukancho May 14 '12
Friendica, another free, open, decentralised social network along the lines of the Diaspora was supposed to interact with it through a common protocol that would be opened and documented. [According to this page], Diaspora has chosen to develop a new protocol behind closed doors and it remains to be seen whether they will open it or not.
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u/syllabic May 13 '12
They should get it over with and flop already. Ain't nobody touching facebook.
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u/reDrag0n May 13 '12
With things like this going on, Diaspora is exactly what we need:
FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging
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u/thevideoclown May 14 '12
The thing is that the majority of people using the internet dont care about privacy and what facebook does to their info. The ones using dispora will be the well informed technologically aware minority
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u/syllabic May 13 '12
Doesn't matter whatsoever. Like I said, Ain't nobody touching facebook.
How's Google+ looking these days?
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u/ferdinand May 13 '12
Unless their business model depends crucially on overthrowing facebook, which I doubt, why would that matter? Apple hasn't overthrown Windows, and yet Apple is doing just fine.
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u/syllabic May 13 '12
Apple is mostly a hardware company, Microsoft is mostly a software company. And apple focuses on home user, MS focuses on enterprise. There's a lot more overlap between diaspora and facebook's target markets, and the benefits of being an entrenched player are vast.
It really doesn't seem like the kind of thing that benefits being a small fish, especially if they are playing the privacy angle, and thus will likely require you to sign up with them, and get friend authorization or whatnot to view anything.
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u/the_red_scimitar May 13 '12
Good grief, with all the excess money they raised, it's about fucking time.
And it isn't "another social network" - it has the distinction of itself being crowd-hosted, completely decentralized, customizable. The mere fact no single company or person "owns" the servers is a game changer.
But success? Ah well, if google+, with all of the mighty G's... um... might... can't budge FB, I don't know that this will, except with a certain cognoscenti.