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First Community Release of Diaspora
New submitter Jalfro writes "Following premature rumors of its demise, the Diaspora core team announce the release of 0.0.1.0. 'It's been a couple of exciting months for us as we've shifted over to a model of community governance. After switching over to SemVer for our versioning system, and plugging away at fixing code through our new unstable branch, we're excited to make our first release beyond the Alpha/Beta labels.'"
not that the summary or the blog care to tell you, but after googling its a open source facebook wanna be.
I really hate it when people want to tell everyone about their new whatever, and dont even bother to tell you WTF it even does
It's an AGPLed, federated social network/protocol, kinda like a cross between Facebook and e-mail or XMPP.
A little more than that; it's also supposed to be a decentralized facebook wannabe. The idea is that people can run their own node (I forget what the diaspora term is), and the system as a whole is composed of those interconnected nodes. Because you control your own node, it's impossible for any of your personal information to escape without your explicit permission.
Personally, I think the initiative and work involved in setting up a node (even if they get it to the relatively trivial, it's always going to be harder than just signing up) is going to necessarily impact adoption, and it'll never get off the ground. Unless, of course, you have someone configuring and hosting your node for you, in which case all advantage is lost (you're still placing control of your information in the hands of a third party).
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Having googled semver, I think the version number may have something to do with this.
http://semver.org/
You completely missed his point. You can only do that because email is a *federated* system. If it wasn't, your email server wouldn't talk to hotmail's email server. There would be islands of completely separate email networks, much like there is with social networks at the moment.
Are you unaware that Diaspora is not only usable, but has a number of federated pod servers such as diasp.org?
I'm sick of people assuming that Diaspora is the same as the first alpha release. That's like judging Linux 3.6 by looking the very first Linux tarball. It's had an entire community contributing to it since the code was made public on Github two years ago.