Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by davedx on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:25AM
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I just signed up and was offered to hook up my Facebook account to my Diaspora account. Is this what you mean?
Personally I chose not to; the reason I'm apathetic to Facebook and rarely use it these days is because of the constant privacy breaches and then the NSA news. Why sign up to an anonymous and decentralized site, only to connect it with your FB identity?
Re:Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project
by rglullis on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:05AM
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To have a stop-gap measure against the chicken-and-egg problem. Connect it now, let your friends know that you are transitioning to this much cooler service and once a good number of them are there, then you will have enough momentum to cancel your FB account.
I would have an account on some Diaspora server, you'd have one on Facebook, and we could post to each other's walls without restrictions.
It would be really easy to hack together an interface. Diaspora would read from Facebook via the API, and post to Facebook via puppet accounts (until they get a proper federation API). Problem is that Facebook will quickly kill the app and delete your account for violating their TOS.
What we really, really need is legislation that forces critical social networks (say, > one million users) to offer federation. All the technical ingredients are already there (protocols like open graph, extensions to XMPP, ...), the corporations just have to allow it. People (and lawmakers) have to realize that social networks have become infrastructure, and need to be regulated to ensure openness and competition.