Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by weego on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:33AM
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200k is a lot of money regardless of circumstance.
And they were never actually competing against anyone, let alone Facebook. That is just naiveness on the part of people that believe that social anything is actually a software problem.
Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by dvt on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:20AM
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I don't disagree with you, but I think the media coverage was worth a lot more than the $200k -- and they received a lot of media coverage.
Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by roel_v on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:00AM
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On nerd sites maybe. The few mentions in the mainstream press were mostly 'look how quaint, these pocket protector weirdos are building a second Facebook except that... uh... yeah just a second Facebook'.
Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by dvt on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:10AM
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This is just incorrect. I read articles on CNN, Huffpo, FOX News, etc. (granted, their tech sections) about it. The general sentiment was that it was supposed to be an "anti-Facebook" -- that's a very good starting point to be at, especially considering most people's general disillusionment with FB.
Furthermore, the advantage the project provided was never really clear from a laymen's perspective. My bias belief is that most people don't love Facebook but don't have a necessary reason to move elsewhere especially when a social network relies on ones social network. IMO, G+ has a prettier UI and some cooler features. But while a lot of my network has joined, few have used it again after launch.
Ultimately if they were to have done it again years back, I think it would've been interesting to do a pure mobile social networking app. Again bias perspective, but I've noticed most of my online interactions with friends nowadays isn't through Facebook, e-mail, or Twitter, but through Whatsapp, Snapchat, Instagram (yes, I know Facebook bought them) and Vine.