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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by zalew on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:12AM (#6282136)
> If just 5% of the people who bitched about Diaspora "failing" or tried to build their own competitor from scratch just contributed instead, then I think we'd be much farther along.

What incentive does anyone have in contributing to a project that burned 200k and failed? Building something on your own with a clean slate and 100% share in the whole process from ground up is an obvious choice IMO (besides the general idea of pursuing 'the next facebook only better because orwell').

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by rogerbraun on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:29AM (#6282397)
I contributed this release cycle. My incentive is that Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features or has a few warts. I tried to fix one of these and it's now in the new release and Diaspora is a little better. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it?
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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by zalew on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:31AM (#6282399)
> Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features

like people using it?

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by rogerbraun on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:41AM (#6282424)
I invited all my friends, nearly all joined. It's not impossible.
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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by Ziomislaw on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:32AM (#6282574)
That is the spirit, you will never change anything by just grumbling.

I think we all realize how difficult is to convince non-technical people that something is dangerous to use, but we shouldn't give up.

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by davexunit on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:32AM (#6283262)
I have contributed to Diaspora. The community is friendly and helpful. They've already built a lot and progress is happening quite fast these days. Choosing to re-invent the wheel is a silly choice.

And even if you don't want to contribute to Diaspora, there's also Pump.io if you'd like that more.

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by melling on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:56AM (#6282288)
Hasn't this already been answered in a TED talk?

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...

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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by hannibal5 on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:25AM (#6282546)
How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora and created diaspora account. It seems to work fine and there seems to bet 20+ diaspora domains running there.
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Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project by zalew on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @07:03AM (#6282683)
> How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora

there

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