Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project"

History's Coming To writes "Decentralised social network startup Diaspora* announced on their blog today that they will become a 'community project' with the intention of making it an entirely community-driven, community-run project. Whether this is a sign of the project losing impetus, or whether this will provide the push needed to challenge commercially run social networks, remains to be seen."

* If you're looking for the footnote there isn't one**, the asterisk is part of the name. Sorry, it's been a point of annoyance on /. before.

** There are two of them, nested.

This could *help* fix diaspora but...

[thatkid_2002]

But it's probably better to put the work into http://buddycloud.org/ [buddycloud.org] instead. Far better base for a federated social network than Diaspora... And a better core team (who welcome contributors). Getting rid of all that Ruby crap would also take a lot of work, and because they're not standards based you can't just (easily) write a Diaspora node in a more sane ecosystem.

Re:Announcement that is almost like

[Lumpy]

G+ losing against facebook? maybe for the inane crowd. Certainly not for the professional crowd.

Let me guess you were one of them that said "Facebook is losing compared to MYspace"... I use both and I see G+ to look exactly like Facebook did in the early two years except it's a hell of a lot larger than Facebook was during those years.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently Ilya was Diaspora*

These guys are Mark.io

RIP IZ [wikipedia.org]

Diaspora in a Box

[DrXym]

Diaspora could become a lot more popular if there were installers and scripts which allowed people to download, install and run the software with a minimal amount of effort. Not just on Linux but Windows and OS X too.

Re:This could *help* fix diaspora but...

[thatkid_2002]

Untill you bashed Ruby I actually followed what you were saying.

Someone who blames the tools, is a worthless worker, so, sorry, can't take anything you say serious.

Actually, sometimes people use the wrong tool for the job. Diaspora is one of those times.