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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by copyninja on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:17AM (#6281967)
> I wish I didn't have to use Facebook.

Your wish can still come true have you tried friendica? Of course the project never got hyped at all no one gave enough money to them but It has almost all features including the federation. After proving himself ones the author of software Mike McGravin has moved on to create much more stable scalable Red#

[1] http://github.com/friendica/friendica/ [2] http://github.com/friendica/red

I always feel bad when Diaspora gets hyped and real valuable project like friendica doesn't get any credits :(

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by LargeWu on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:28AM (#6283246)
Social apps are not about software features. The entire value of facebook comes from the fact that everybody else uses it.
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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by copyninja on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:06AM (#6288427)
If you want people to use alternative to already existing first then the alternative should have similar+ better features.

And friendica has good people base only it lacks media coverage. And my whole point was that Diaspora did nothing but got wide media coverage and people got dissatisfied but friendica has deadly feature but no media coverage

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by rogerbraun on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:11PM (#6285121)
That's not completely true. If it were true, nobody would use facebook because everybody already has email.
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