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]]> By: Anonymous http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/05/the-audacity-of-diaspora.php#comment-29587 Anonymous Mon, 14 May 2012 20:37:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6305#comment-29587 Thanks Mark, appreciate your corrections/clarifications, and will grok Friendica Thanks Mark, appreciate your corrections/clarifications, and will grok Friendica

]]> By: Mark the Webalyst http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/05/the-audacity-of-diaspora.php#comment-29584 Mark the Webalyst Mon, 14 May 2012 19:23:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6305#comment-29584 For someone who claims to be following Diaspora you make some glaring errors. It is not in beta, it is still in alpha, and it doesn't proclaim to be taking on facebook. And, as far as I can tell from searching the web yesterday, Ilya's death is still unexplained pending coronor's reports, so his "suicide" is still unconfirmed speculation and should be reported as such. As for Diaspora being an alternative to facebook which it certainly does aim to be, it is not alone. Friendica is for me (as a long term Diaspora alpha tester), a more interesting proposition being something that anyone can self host (without the skill or maintenance committment required by Diaspora) and which operates more through federation than centralisation. Friendica is at one end of a spectrum, Facebook and Google+ at the other, and Diaspora somewhere between the two. I am wholeheartedly with you in supporting alternatives to Facebook (and Google+) which are intentionally exploitative, at the same time as creating massive vulnerabilities for their users to be monitored and manipulated by all manner of third parties (government, commercial and criminal). Diaspora though, is not so audacious as you make out, and to me that is more than a little disappointing. Their policy is a mystery it seems to even the most invovled of their developer community which has become fractious and to some degree disillusioned The project continues to rumble on, with no audacious aims, and many months after Ilya's sad death has yet to move from "getting closer to beta" to a firm target for even that, let alone the demise of facebook. Facebook will probably fail, though the timing can't be predicted. But it won't be from a similar challenger such as Diaspora (or even more plausibly from Google+) who can at best only vie for a proportion of the pie. No, facebook's demise will be in favour of an alternative model, perhaps not the federation of Friendica, but quite possibly something new that arises *out* of a different approach such as federation. Mark (in London) For someone who claims to be following Diaspora you make some glaring errors. It is not in beta, it is still in alpha, and it doesn’t proclaim to be taking on facebook. And, as far as I can tell from searching the web yesterday, Ilya’s death is still unexplained pending coronor’s reports, so his “suicide” is still unconfirmed speculation and should be reported as such.

As for Diaspora being an alternative to facebook which it certainly does aim to be, it is not alone. Friendica is for me (as a long term Diaspora alpha tester), a more interesting proposition being something that anyone can self host (without the skill or maintenance committment required by Diaspora) and which operates more through federation than centralisation. Friendica is at one end of a spectrum, Facebook and Google+ at the other, and Diaspora somewhere between the two.

I am wholeheartedly with you in supporting alternatives to Facebook (and Google+) which are intentionally exploitative, at the same time as creating massive vulnerabilities for their users to be monitored and manipulated by all manner of third parties (government, commercial and criminal).

Diaspora though, is not so audacious as you make out, and to me that is more than a little disappointing. Their policy is a mystery it seems to even the most invovled of their developer community which has become fractious and to some degree disillusioned The project continues to rumble on, with no audacious aims, and many months after Ilya’s sad death has yet to move from “getting closer to beta” to a firm target for even that, let alone the demise of facebook.

Facebook will probably fail, though the timing can’t be predicted. But it won’t be from a similar challenger such as Diaspora (or even more plausibly from Google+) who can at best only vie for a proportion of the pie. No, facebook’s demise will be in favour of an alternative model, perhaps not the federation of Friendica, but quite possibly something new that arises *out* of a different approach such as federation.

Mark (in London)

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