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)
I'm curious, and I have three weeks to check this shiznit out. I'm game.
I would certainly be interested, thank you. I will of course distribute further invites back into the community
If this is the Diaspora Facebook alt thingie, yesplease, and agreed!
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
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?
I am in! Anyone else need invites?
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!
I don't know because the Nanny filter won't let me look. What is this diaspora thing anyway? Sounds like a horrible disease.
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.
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
Signed up, have five invites.
So um, how do I add others in this thread?
here's my diaspora handle:
cramulus@joindiaspora.com
I think you'll find me if you put that into the search box?
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.
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@
Faust, if you have an invite, can you hit up bdsimpleton@gmail.com? Thanks a lot :D
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
Added BDS
thanks faust!
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.
Got everyone so far. Still have invites.
Hit me up, if you'd be so kind: onetimeaddress@poee.co.uk
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.
Request'd
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.
Was that directed at me?
That depends. When were you born?
'94.
Just some annonytard. :lulz:
Ah. Apologies.
This looks interesting, now that it's up and running.
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.
I'm still fucking pissed that I gave them money and never received a CD in the mail nor an email invite.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Anyone got an invite? tripzilch at gmail dot com.
Gotcha. Invite is incoming.
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?
I'd like to give it a go.
update: thanks, hov
Fuck Diaspora. What a bunch of asspipes.
I logged in once and forgot about it, will have to snoop around some more but it seemed pretty basic back then.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.