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Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tremble-in-something-something dept.

jamie writes "A post has just gone up on Diaspora's blog revealing what the project actually looks like for the first time. While it's not yet ready to be released to the public, the open-source social networking project is giving the world a glimpse of what it looks like today and also releasing the project code, as promised. At first glance, this preview version of Diaspora looks sparse, but clean. Oddly enough, with its big pictures and stream, it doesn't look unlike Apple's new Ping music social network mixed with yes, Facebook."

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  1. Another one? by captain_dope_pants · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Really ? When are we going to hit saturation point, there are loads of them all doing roughly the same thing. Unless it does something radically different what does it (or any of the 'smaller' networking site) hope to acheive ?

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  2. What's the point...? by ItsIllak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now, all they have to do is to convince 500 million people (or whatever it is FB claims today) to move over to their service that has no whistles or bells. Umm.. 1/ Build competitor 2/ Release to world 3/ ??? 4/ Complete and utter failure.

  3. Re:I dunno, man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The name isn't exactly very catchy. Sounds like some random character from an RPG. Also sounds slightly like diarrhea mixed with spore, and in fact it looks like it does take meaning from the root of those words (dia = flow, spore = seeds or whatever) as the real meaning is:

    the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel; the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel

    I don't think that many people of other religions are going to be happy using this thing if they find out the actual meaning of the word. Nor racists. Good luck with that, Diaspora!

    Fucking anti-Semitic prick. I bet you're a spore that flowed from diarrhea.

    What's your social network going to be called? Nigger? So all the black people aren't going to be happy using this thing if they find out the actual meaning of the word.

  4. Re:I dunno, man... by dloose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously? Who moderates on this site? In what world is that post "insightful"? Where are my mod points? It deserves a -1 Ignorant