Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In 90
schlick writes with word that the Diaspora project (last mentioned here several weeks back) has an update with a demo and some screen shots. Diaspora's goal: to provide social networking without the privacy invasion possibilities inherent in sites like Facebook.
It looks good. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I don't understand (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Personal web server? (Score:5, Informative)
I've spoken to the devs, there will be hubs. Think wordpress.com vs wordpress. You can host it yourself, or at one of many locations. So they cater to both audiences, and you can always move your stuff off the hub onto your own box, or a server you have, whenever. Contrast with Facebook :)
Re:I don't understand (Score:5, Informative)
The big deal isn't that your data is magically safe, but that all sharing of that data is entirely on your terms.
Re:lucybecker (Score:3, Informative)
It's a spammer running a script. The sentence in the comment has been posted already in the discussion, and it just reposted it to look more like a legitimate comment, to encourage people to click the link.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Informative)
Michael, maybe you could try and get in contact with the diaspora guys (since they're just starting to code and all) so that you can make sure this future is possible (making much more likely for this idea of "open social network" to happen)
There's a summit coming up where all the open source projects focusing on distributed social networking will be getting together to discuss that. Appleseed and Diaspora will be there (along with a bunch more). Should be very interesting!
Michael Chisari
The Appleseed Project - http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/ [appleseedproject.org]