jawtheshark's Journal: Diaspora

Got five invites... First come, first served. Also published on Facebook and Twitter... So, be quick.

2010-12-12@1:21CET Fixed typo in headline

2010-12-15@14:56CET All invites gone

I'm interested :-)

[tomhudson]

Obviously, anything is better than the status quo.

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[jawtheshark]

Done... Two left...

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[tomhudson]

Thanks. Now I've got 5 invites - will pass along :-)

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[jawtheshark]

Don't we love exponential growth? I got my invite from another slashdotter. Problem is, I have no matches between Facebook real names and slashdot nicks. I know he's from slashdot, but I don't know who he is here... Go figure.

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[tomhudson]

With all the worries people have had over the sharing of information, I suspect that this is only the beginning.

Not only will other people set up diaspora servers, but also diaspora-compatible services. It's the beginning of the "read/write web" that we were originally promised.

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[jawtheshark]

Where is the like button on this thing?

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[tomhudson]

This is slashdot ... I'm still waiting for the ability to add a a REAL explanation for why something was modded a certain way. And an "oops - let me update my comment to fix the stupid typo before "teh grammer speling" nazis get to it to "edjumicate me on propper sin-tax".

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[jawtheshark]

Well, we know nerds aren't good at UIs ;-)

So what exactly is diaspora?

[Arker]

Something like facebook right?

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[jawtheshark]

Yup, about... Very alpha. Difference is, it's open source and you can have your own server.