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Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 12:35:18 PM

Title: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 12:35:18 PM
I have 3 Diaspora (http://blog.joindiaspora.com/what-is-diaspora.html) invites left... who wants one?

my condition for giving you one is that you give invites to other people from the community here too, so more of us get onboard.  :mrgreen:


so far, my network is looking like St. Mae and Vexati0n.. Needs Moar!


UPDATE:

I made an Etherpad page to help manage invites http://piratepad.net/ObGFgISyye

+ if you want an invite, put your e-mail addy on the list

+ If you give out an invite, take the person you invited off the list

+ once you get an invite, add your diaspora handle to the list (and mention who are if it's not obvious)

Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Fractalbeard on December 21, 2010, 01:31:07 PM
I'm curious, and I have three weeks to check this shiznit out. I'm game.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on December 21, 2010, 01:44:00 PM
I would certainly be interested, thank you. I will of course distribute further invites back into the community
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Richter on December 21, 2010, 02:04:15 PM
If this is the Diaspora Facebook alt thingie, yesplease, and agreed!
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 02:25:04 PM
alright you three, you're in

but I forgot to ask -- what e-mail addy should I send the invite to? feel free to pm
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on December 21, 2010, 02:31:51 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 02:25:04 PM
alright you three, you're in

but I forgot to ask -- what e-mail addy should I send the invite to? feel free to pm

Could you be so kind as to send it to my gmail account as listed under my profile information?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Richter on December 21, 2010, 03:17:04 PM
I am in!  Anyone else need invites?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 03:23:35 PM
Quote from: Rurouzaru on December 21, 2010, 01:31:07 PM
I'm curious, and I have three weeks to check this shiznit out. I'm game.

e-mail sent to your principiadiscordia.com address

Quote from: Faust on December 21, 2010, 02:31:51 PM
Could you be so kind as to send it to my gmail account as listed under my profile information?

CRAP! I accidentally sent it to your hotmail account. After you get logged in, you can change your address though. Mybad!
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: AFK on December 21, 2010, 03:24:07 PM
I don't know because the Nanny filter won't let me look.  What is this diaspora thing anyway?  Sounds like a horrible disease.  
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 03:28:31 PM
from the link in the OP
x-posted for our friends who are posting from an internet playpen:

What is Diaspora?

Diaspora is the social network that puts you in control of your information. You decide what you'd like to share, and with whom. You retain full ownership of all your information, including friend lists, messages, photos, and profile details.

Share what you want, with who you want.

Control: built-in

If you take twenty photos at a party, you can show the three least-incriminating to your coworkers, while posting the whole set to your friends. Your coworkers can't find out that they're seeing the expurgated version. Future employers can't either.

You can post updates to everyone, to just your close friends, to just your family, or to any other subset of your friends. It's easy to make these groups, called "aspects," and it's straightforward to share different things with different aspects.

Privacy: easy

Diaspora doesn't expose your information to advertisers, or to games you play, or to other websites you visit. It's inherently private – you tell Diaspora who gets to see those pictures of your kids, and only those people will see them. Period.


Find a home

Diaspora is not a single site — it's a collection of different sites, with different URLs, run by different people. But they all run the same software, and they all talk to each other. Each server is called a "pod." As the service grows, lots of these pods will join the Diaspora network.

The official pod, run by the project's founders, is http://joindiaspora.com.

All you have to do to get started is choose a home pod! That's where you'll go, log in, and see what your friends are up to. Your home can be at joindiaspora.com, or the Diaspora pod your university runs, or the Diaspora pod your friend sets up on her server.

No matter which home you choose, you can be friends with anyone, even if their home is somewhere else. The pods can securely communicate with each other, no matter where they're located.

Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 21, 2010, 03:48:42 PM
i just signed up to try and get an invite, i guess it'll be a while till they send me one.


also it looks cool, but seeing as it's Ruby/NoSQL and runs on CentOS, i don't think i'll be running a pod, lol
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on December 21, 2010, 04:13:45 PM
Signed up, have five invites.

So um, how do I add others in this thread?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 04:29:56 PM
here's my diaspora handle:

cramulus@joindiaspora.com

I think you'll find me if you put that into the search box?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Epimetheus on December 21, 2010, 04:40:12 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 04:29:56 PM
here's my diaspora handle:

cramulus@joindiaspora.com

I think you'll find me if you put that into the search box?

I just searched Cramulus and it went to you instantly. :)

My handle's Ekto.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on December 21, 2010, 04:48:08 PM
Quote from: Epi on December 21, 2010, 04:40:12 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 04:29:56 PM
here's my diaspora handle:

cramulus@joindiaspora.com

I think you'll find me if you put that into the search box?

I just searched Cramulus and it went to you instantly. :)

My handle's Ekto.

I think I just added you. I'm faust@
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 21, 2010, 05:10:00 PM
Faust, if you have an invite, can you hit up bdsimpleton@gmail.com? Thanks a lot :D
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on December 21, 2010, 05:19:23 PM
I made an Etherpad page to help manage invites http://piratepad.net/ObGFgISyye

+ if you want an invite, put your e-mail addy on the list

+ If you give out an invite, take the person you invited off the list

+ once you get an invite, add your diaspora handle to the list (and mention who are if it's not obvious)

OP UPDATED
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on December 21, 2010, 05:32:22 PM
Added BDS
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 21, 2010, 05:34:20 PM
thanks faust!
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 21, 2010, 05:40:51 PM
looks kind of featureless right now.

needs to be able to import from facebook/twitter. Also I find the fact that I can't SEE other people's friends to be detracting from the social experience, you know? although i guess that's a part of the OMG PRIVACY thing, i dunno.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Richter on December 21, 2010, 06:02:33 PM
Got everyone so far.  Still have invites.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on December 21, 2010, 08:41:15 PM
Hit me up, if you'd be so kind: onetimeaddress@poee.co.uk
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 21, 2010, 09:38:22 PM
WTF

Those fuckers were supposed to mail me shit, I sent them money! They didn't even notify me that they were up and running.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Placid Dingo on December 22, 2010, 01:51:25 AM
Request'd
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on December 22, 2010, 01:45:58 PM
Thanks for the invite, Richter. ;)

I'm not friending anyone born in the 90s. Cos what the fuck do you know about anything, yet? Especially not if you have nothing in your profile that says what you're about. Dumbass. :lulz:

Oh yeah. Predictably: synaptyx@joindispora.com

Oh, drop me a PM if you want an invite.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 22, 2010, 02:39:32 PM
Was that directed at me?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: LMNO on December 22, 2010, 02:41:31 PM
That depends.  When were you born?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 22, 2010, 02:41:54 PM
'94.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on December 22, 2010, 02:48:11 PM
Just some annonytard. :lulz:
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 22, 2010, 02:49:53 PM
Ah. Apologies.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 22, 2010, 04:22:50 PM
This looks interesting, now that it's up and running.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 22, 2010, 07:53:41 PM
Quote from: BDS on December 22, 2010, 02:41:54 PM
'94.

For some reason that's freaking me out. My daughter was born in '98.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 22, 2010, 07:54:40 PM
I'm still fucking pissed that I gave them money and never received a CD in the mail nor an email invite.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 22, 2010, 08:04:22 PM
I did sign up to receive a physical CD, because I figured I'd be more likely to see that than an email. But I also searched my emails and my junk folder and unless they titled it something that had no reference to Diaspora and sent it from an email address with no reference to Diaspora, I didn't get one.

Fucking irresponsible college kids. I have no confidence this will be any better than Facebook in the long run, if they can't even stay on top of notifying the people who actually gave them money.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 22, 2010, 08:08:30 PM
Quote from: Nigel on December 22, 2010, 07:53:41 PM
Quote from: BDS on December 22, 2010, 02:41:54 PM
'94.

For some reason that's freaking me out. My daughter was born in '98.

Ze young'uns!  Zey are everyver!
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: bds on December 22, 2010, 08:09:51 PM
Also, it's possible they're waiting to get into Beta before sending all the stuff out to the mailing list. It's very much a barebones Alpha right now, almost looks like they just rolled it out to test the scaling and such on the codebase.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 22, 2010, 08:24:04 PM
Quote from: BDS on December 22, 2010, 08:09:51 PM
Also, it's possible they're waiting to get into Beta before sending all the stuff out to the mailing list. It's very much a barebones Alpha right now, almost looks like they just rolled it out to test the scaling and such on the codebase.

Sure it's possible. It's just NOT WHAT THEY PROMISED.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Triple Zero on January 23, 2011, 03:57:21 AM
Anyone got an invite? tripzilch at gmail dot com.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Juana on January 23, 2011, 04:29:49 AM
Gotcha. Invite is incoming.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Phox on January 23, 2011, 05:05:31 AM
So, I'm debating. Is it worth it? I mean, I've never been a big fan of these types of sites. But, I think this one actually has potential from what I've heard about itl, but since I haven't actually seen it, I don't know. So could one of you let me know if it seems to be living up to the hype?
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Brotep on January 23, 2011, 06:33:53 AM
I'd like to give it a go.

update: thanks, hov
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2011, 07:35:22 AM
Fuck Diaspora. What a bunch of asspipes.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Faust on January 23, 2011, 02:15:02 PM
I logged in once and forgot about it, will have to snoop around some more but it seemed pretty basic back then.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Triple Zero on January 23, 2011, 02:52:52 PM
I just want to try it out.

I was on a Dutch social network, and I gotta say, the concept of social networks has a lot of real advantages. Among other things, keeping contact with friends you normally don't speak that often, but in a sort of non-committal way (cause otherwise you'd speak them more often).

And I dunno a bunch of other stuff, it's just nice.

But Facebook just freaks me the fuck out. Especially cause within moments I'll have all my local friends, and family, and you Discordian guys and who knows who else on my friends list, and frankly I don't really want to give that data to the NSA just like that.
Also, the privacy settings, Facebook seems to be purposefully designed to make as much of your private data as public as possible, especially via tricking and giving incentive for people to do it voluntarily. I think I even read some interviews where some Facebook strategic marking officer said this is exactly their vision or goal or something. The point is, it can be a lot less, that Dutch network was great fun and the privacy settings were simple and straight forward, erring on the side of caution. Currently that network is going the Facebook way.

I can go on, but I don't even use Facebook. My point is, I like the concept of social networks, but loathe Facebook's fucked up way of implementing it.

So I kind of want Diaspora (or similar projects) to work and to succeed. Guess the best way to do that is to check them out.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Juana on January 23, 2011, 05:48:34 PM
I suspect they'll send you your invite, Nigel, when it's not in alpha anymore. Alpha's getting better, but still very bare bones.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Cramulus on January 24, 2011, 03:43:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 23, 2011, 05:05:31 AM
So, I'm debating. Is it worth it? I mean, I've never been a big fan of these types of sites. But, I think this one actually has potential from what I've heard about itl, but since I haven't actually seen it, I don't know. So could one of you let me know if it seems to be living up to the hype?

theres not a lot going on right now.  Eventually there will be, but right now everything is very alpha. Not as many functions as facebook. I'm enjoying being a part of this thing at alpha, I'm liking watching the development, but I wouldn't recommend it as a social network just yet.


Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Richter on January 24, 2011, 05:07:10 PM
It's no Facebook yet, that's for certain.
The main thing I miss is cruising through different people's profiles, seeing who's friends of who, and finding other people I know.  Diaspora, AFAIK, doesn't do this yet.  It's not really browseable in any way I've yet discovered.  The lack of content / useage is a factor too, but that would go for Facebook too, if it wasn't so widely used. 



Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Phox on January 24, 2011, 07:38:52 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 24, 2011, 03:43:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 23, 2011, 05:05:31 AM
So, I'm debating. Is it worth it? I mean, I've never been a big fan of these types of sites. But, I think this one actually has potential from what I've heard about itl, but since I haven't actually seen it, I don't know. So could one of you let me know if it seems to be living up to the hype?

theres not a lot going on right now.  Eventually there will be, but right now everything is very alpha. Not as many functions as facebook. I'm enjoying being a part of this thing at alpha, I'm liking watching the development, but I wouldn't recommend it as a social network just yet.




Yes, that's all understandable at this stage of development. I suppose my question is whether it is developing well (kind of subjective, really), and if the development team is responding in a timely and efficient manner to concerns and bugs. I tend to question these "idealistic" developers.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Triple Zero on January 24, 2011, 09:21:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 24, 2011, 07:38:52 PM
I tend to question these "idealistic" developers.

really? cause in my experience "idealistic" developers usually are the best kind.

In this particular case you might be right, however. These kids got an assload of money (wait now I remember why Nigel's so pissed off, she donated some didn't she?) because they got a really good swing from NYTimes media hype. While at the same moment there were a couple of other projects trying to do the same thing (decentralized Facebook with extra privacy), and they were a bit further in development as well. The Diaspora team basically just stole the limelights.

That's not to say they can't be of the idealistic and proper kind of developers though.
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Phox on January 25, 2011, 02:10:40 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 24, 2011, 09:21:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 24, 2011, 07:38:52 PM
I tend to question these "idealistic" developers.

really? cause in my experience "idealistic" developers usually are the best kind.

In this particular case you might be right, however. These kids got an assload of money (wait now I remember why Nigel's so pissed off, she donated some didn't she?) because they got a really good swing from NYTimes media hype. While at the same moment there were a couple of other projects trying to do the same thing (decentralized Facebook with extra privacy), and they were a bit further in development as well. The Diaspora team basically just stole the limelights.

That's not to say they can't be of the idealistic and proper kind of developers though.

That's why it's in quotation marks, Trip. Truly idealistic developers ARE the best. Nowadays, everyone* just claims to be idealistic, for that reason. So, I'm jaded.

*=Cynical hyperbole
Title: Re: Diaspora
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 25, 2011, 06:25:21 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on January 23, 2011, 05:48:34 PM
I suspect they'll send you your invite, Nigel, when it's not in alpha anymore. Alpha's getting better, but still very bare bones.

In the face with a sharp stick, repeatedly.