Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project"

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Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project"

Posted by Unknown on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:09PM from the running-out-of-cash dept.

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.

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Announcement that is almost like by Subway+Analogy+Guy · 2012-08-27 21:10 · Score: 5, Funny

This announcement by Diaspora is like the good old Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt sub from SubWay. It's filled with delicious bacon and ranch sauce and their intention is good. However, you notice something lacking. Something different. There is chicken! The lack of good old meat (girls) is drawing attention away from Diaspora. Hell, even Google+ is losing their battle against Facebook. You have to take it with ham, man!
1. Re:Announcement that is almost like by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-28 00:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  G+ losing against facebook? maybe for the inane crowd. Certainly not for the professional crowd.
  That's right, G+ is losing against LinkedIn for the professional crowd.
Re:This could *help* fix diaspora but... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-27 21:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

Untill you bashed Ruby I actually followed what you were saying.
Someone who blames the tools, is a worthless worker, so, sorry, can't take anything you say serious.
Like my dog by fph+il+quozientatore · 2012-08-27 21:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

I remember this dog Waldo that I had when I was a kid. He had been old and quite ill for a while, and one day my parents told me he was sent to join an open-source community project outside town.
I am sure he is still there, writes GNU Hurd device drivers all day and waits for the time when he'll come back to me on his flying car.

--
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
Bored.. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-27 21:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

"Community Project" = developers are now bored and want to move on to new things. It's been what, two or three years since Diaspora started and it hasn't exactly exploded on to the social networking scene and stolen Facebook's crown.
The developers are now working on some lame picture mashup thing called Makr.io, probably hoping Facebook will buy it so they can retire.
Posting anon as I am moderating.
Re:This could *help* fix diaspora but... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-27 21:53 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree. Using http://buddycloud.org/ [buddycloud.org] would certainly make most any modern software better. BuddyCloud (http://buddycloud.org/) [buddycloud.org] helps any truly talented group achieve their potential. And by putting your project on BuddyCloud (that's http://buddycloud.org/ or just type buddycloud into your browser's search tool) you could help save not just your project, but this economy as well. That's BuddyCloud (http://buddycloud.org/) [buddycloud.org] ... the cloud is your buddy.
Re:This could *help* fix diaspora but... by Raenex · 2012-08-27 23:24 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
Re:This could *help* fix diaspora but... by An+dochasac · 2012-08-28 00:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

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."
Hey if they can make the world's largest social network out of PHP, spit and bailing wire, I don't think technology matters as much as we wish it did. A frighteningly large percentage of business logic still runs on Visual BASIC and Cobol.

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.
Careful, I think there are several patents on that.