[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora

[Brandon Invergo]

> Wish them the best of luck, but diaspora is one of at least a dozen
> projects of its kind.  Diaspora just has the best promotion.

Like it or not, that's exactly what a social network project needs:
promotion. Since it's only useful if people are using it and if it can
attract new users, no matter how feature-ful and feature-complete a
social networking platform is, it will fail if no one actually uses it.
I've been using Diaspora for some time now and there are very few
standard social networking features that I miss. What they need to iron
out is data portability and an API (maybe they already have done the
latter; I haven't looked closely) and it will be a very viable solution
in my opinion. 

-brandon