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First Community Release of Diaspora

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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.'"

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  1. Yawn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah this will go nowhere.

    I'll give them points for trying though.

    1. Re:Yawn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Because if s/he had actually ever done something worth anything, s/he wouldn't be sitting around sneering at the perceived uselessness of other people's projects. It's just a way of making him/herself feel better.

    2. Re:Yawn... by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not really. As someone who kicked a few bucks into the Diaspora Kickstarter project, I have to say that for all the hype and excitement and promises of the project (which sought $10,000 and received more than $200,000), they have basically accomplished fuck-all in the last two years.

      To be fair, part of that is due to the difficulty of proposing a social network that by nature is only going to interest serious geeks (you have to either host a server running a seed or find someone who is to run your stuff through). Another part is due to the abysmal insecurities in their first released code (though, granted, it was extremely early code and probably deserved a little more slack than it got). And then there's the part where one of the Ilya (the founder of the Diaspora project) died almost one year ago.

      It's never really going to accomplish something, but it caught a lot of attention early on and may be one of those fruitless endeavors that must be forged for its own sake, even if it's not ever actually going to supplant Facebook.

  2. Version numbers are like body language by humanrev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know version numbers are all relative and aren't supposed to have much meaning on their own, but their first official non alpha/beta release being marked as version 0.0.1.0 kinda tells me a lot about what confidence the developers have in terms of the security and functionality of their code.

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    1. Re:Version numbers are like body language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Couldn't they at least have gone for 0.1?

      0.0.1.0 is the sort of number I'd expect for them to have the day after starting.

  3. Great! by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think.. wtf is Diaspora? I know i could go look it up but i shouldn't have to.

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  4. Re:Can anyone explain to me by Dagger2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everybody; because it's federated.

    Think about email. When you want to send mail to somebody, you just pull up your email account and do it. No fuss. You don't need to sign up for a Gmail account, a Hotmail account, an Outlook account, a Yahoo account, a gmx.net account and so on for every provider just to be able to send email to that provider's users. One account with one of them is enough to email a user of any of them.

    Social networking isn't like that at the moment. You have to sign up for separate Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Nexopia, Badoo, Bebo and so on accounts just to interact with the users of those networks. This is bad.

    To see why, just look at Gmail. Back when that was introduced, Hotmail was the go-to provider for free webmail. I don't know if you remember, but at the time Hotmail kinda sucked. It had an ugly, slow interface and an allowance of 2-4 MB. That was standard. Then Gmail comes along with a clean, responsive interface and a 1 GB allowance, and of course it's massively popular. Suddenly every other provider was cleaning up their UI and offering much larger allowances. Outlook.com, for instance, now has the clean, responsive interface and it doesn't even have a cap on the amount of mail you can store.

    If email wasn't federated, none of that would have happened. Nobody would have used or cared about Gmail back when it had no users because, well, it had no users. You'd still be using Hotmail with its 2 MB inbox. You couldn't even set up your own server to avoid all that, because your own server would be useless for mailing Hotmail users.

    Diaspora aims to bring federation to social networks, and that's why you should care about it.

  5. Redundancy Department. by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of the visible posts are complaints about the summary not including a description.
    That would indicate that the posters are too lazy to check to see if someone else had already posted it.
    Pots meet kettle.

    You're not perfect.

    And Diaspora has been covered on here many times, so at least the submitter and the editor have an excuse.