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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. Looks great! Maybe I'll download it and start... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, it's written in ruby? Never mind. /starts language war

  2. Awesome! by spiffmastercow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I can network with all 3 people that care about both FOSS principles and social networking!

    1. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just checked. Richard Stallman doesn't want to be your friend.

  3. Re:All flash, no substance. by alen · · Score: 2, Funny

    i still have hope that someone will have an all text version

  4. Re:Another one? by diegocg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course there are open source social networks. I cannot believe you don't know GNU Social!

  5. Re:I dunno, man... by The+Breeze · · Score: 2, Funny

    Facebook isn't slow. It serves up error messages rather quickly.

  6. Re:I dunno, man... by indifferent+children · · Score: 4, Funny
    MySpace was mostly popular among young people, particularly teenagers.

    MySpace was mostly popular among blind people. There is no other possible explanation for the "design" of users' pages.

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