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Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed
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."
There's some debate about whites paying reparations for slavery. This is a narrow view. It is more like a balance sheet.
On one side there is slavery that ended longer ago than it lasted.
On the other side there is the damage to white culture esp. the youth caused by black gangsta rap and thug culture and glorification of criminal behavior. Then there's the political ploy of making every damn thing a race issue. Disagree with Obama's politics? Surely you are a racist, it cannot be that you hold a contrary viewpoint! Unlike slavery, this damage is ongoing.
Tally it all up and if anything it is the blacks who owe the whites if there are going to be reparations.
Great way to innovate, team!
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!
which is totally what she said
Seriously. That's a huge mistake., Scalability should be built into the core of it. Its okay if its just the interface, but the core of the app should be written in Scala, or Go. One can only hope that this is just a prototype that they will rewrite with a more solid base.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
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It must be crap with a name too similar to diarrhea.