Introduction to diaspora

ISOC-NY1739 Four NYU students report to the Internet Society's New York Chapter on their efforts to meet Eben Moglen's challenge to create a facebook killer, or in their words a "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network." NYU Apr 22 2010.

http://joindiaspora.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• isoc-ny
• diaspora
• nyu
• moglen
• freedom
• cloud
• open
• free
• culture
• privacy
• social
• network
• project

[setsallset]

These guys need to get it together. It's almost a year and diaspora is still in Alpha?! come on...

[wwwhatsup]

@setsallset Fair point. Rome wasn't built in a day :) - I suspect maintaining robust security and openness and autonomy all at the same time is not so easy. I dd shoot a recent update - I'll post it in a day or three.

[drudizzle79]

bullets rather than bullet points would save this presentation..."like its all in one place, like, you know, its like you know sort put in one place, and rectify like put photos in like one area of the freedom server side like software, uhh, like uhh"...

I like the idea and look forward to trying it out...privacy is number one for me..

they need a new pitch man..

They should get the ShamWow guy...! step it up guys!

[wwwhatsup]

@drudizzle79 I don't know how often I have to say this - this was an informal presentation just as these guys were taking their first steps on the project. We (ISOC-NY) didn't need pitching as we presented the original challenge. Pay attention!

[SuperAlexBal]

Diaspora sounded promising but I have tried it out and it has many issues. I am now waiting for MyCube to launch and am hoping it can restore privacy to social media

[wwwhatsup]

@SuperAlexBal Rome wasn't built in a day.

[amay0325]

@codeine1908 I would like to add. What it's going to take is a site to take social networking back to it's roots. Re-examine what the problems are in today's social networks and build something that is EASY and convenient with users in mind ! Focus on privacy, but don't make that your only goal. I'm willing to bet that 70% of the facebook users have no idea what's really going on. They just take what they here in the news and make there own assumptions.

[amay0325]

@codeine1908 I agree facebook is "King" RIGHT NOW...They are slowly becoming obsolete. Sure this project has good intentions, but coming from a fellow coder and designer. They don't have a chance. Why??? Because facebook's biggest problem is not privacy. (Hence it is a problem, but not the biggest !) Here are just 2 problems. 1.They all the sudden stopped caring about the user experience on the site. 2.They have no idea how to stop spammers etc...That being said Facebook will fail within a year

[4joules]

i love diaspora :)

[YoungHorusMedia]

These guys are going to be challenged when things get really complicated at the core since they have chosen Ruby middleware instead of Java :).

[YoungHorusMedia]

@setsallset

It takes a long time to write quality software my friend and this is no small project.

[SoftwareExplorer]

@setsallset There are multiple sites running the alpha of it. You don't have to use the joindiaspora pod/site to try Diaspora*. I like the diasp. org pod, which is currently letting people sign up. You can see a list of pods at podupti.me

[CandyBlueBre]

Ilya's skip at the end makes me laugh every time!

[linunikera]

Diaspora is great dev is greats..............♥

[WPproductions89]

So, this is what Kyles cousin does, when not visiting SouthPark.........

[joaorstm]

I, for one, welcome the lack of our old Facebook overlords.

[zikalify]

@setsallset Also you can sign up to one of those pods and add ppl at joindiaspora . com just like normal :D im zikalify @ joindiaspora . com

[zikalify]

@setsallset Although not the core developers pod you can join other pods like diasp . org and ilikefreedom . org w/o an invite :)