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Is Diaspora dead?
Diaspora, the Kickstarter princess that took on Facebook started with a bang, but now, 6 months after opening it's beta, I see almost no activity.
I scan the member pages and less than 1% have a pic, only 1700 people following #newhere, and those that are following it have not been around for 3-4 months.
Is it dead? Flawed? Too much work? What's the deal?
- mathewsanders 14y agoMorale probably took a big hit when cofounder Ilya Alekseevich Zhitomirskiy died :( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/technology/ilya-zhitomirskiy-co-founder-of-social-network-dies-at-22.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/technology/ilya-zhitomirsk... I made an account but it never really took off since none of my friends made the switch. I think the idea of a distributed social network isn't flawed but I have a feeling that a successful implementation won't look like a clone of Facebook/Twitter.
- RoyceFullerton 14y agoThey got into the next round of YCombinator, so I'm sure we will see something soon. http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-track-joins-y-combinator-program/ http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...
- yoseph 14y agoHave a read of this recent BusinessWeek article: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/24762-on-diasporas-social-network-you-own-your-data http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/24762-on-diaspo... They're still going and actually were just accepted into YC.
- debacle 14y agoIt seems like they're still around, but their initial vision has been distorted. If they do release something, it will likely be very different from what was expected in the past.
- dbin78 14y agoEven though the VCs don't see it, yes!