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Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project"
History's Coming To writes "Decentralised social network startup Diaspora* announced on their blog today that they will become a 'community project' with the intention of making it an entirely community-driven, community-run project.
Whether this is a sign of the project losing impetus, or whether this will provide the push needed to challenge commercially run social networks, remains to be seen."
* If you're looking for the footnote there isn't one**, the asterisk is part of the name. Sorry, it's been a point of annoyance on /. before.
** There are two of them, nested.
** There are two of them, nested.
Bearing in mind the sites that use Ruby I don't think so.
Since Twitter is the Ruby poster-child, how about Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java:
"Twitter has now moved its entire search stack from Ruby-on-Rails to Java.
That's a big shift. Twitter moved its back end message queue from Ruby to Scala, a Java platform in the 2008-2009 time frame. The move was attributed to issues with reliability on the back-end.
This latest move makes the shift pretty much complete. At Twitter, Ruby is out of the picture."
I think it is more the lack of skills and that you will probably need some time with your nose in a manual to set up the rails environment to run a node.
Ah yes, just throw more nodes at your unreliable and resource-hungry server code.