diaspora

[daniel_t_miles]

the diaspora project launches sometime in October. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's an open source project designed to kill Facebook by providing an alternative that gives us both legal and cryptographic control of our own data. They also say they're working hard on a UI that makes it easy to decide what content goes to your

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[keystricken]

Yes indeed.

[akatchoom]

Probably. You would first have to explain the vocabulary and mechanisms, because the extent of my social networking via the internet has been pretty much limited to the forum in which we are currently conversing, i.e. I am a cave girl and might club friendly visitors.

[ms_nico_blue]

Stop trying to pollinate me

[jes5199]

it's not like facebook does anything useful anyway

[jes5199]

I think it does mean that you don't have to do everything that facebook does for people to use it.
in fact, I suspect that facebook could be modeled as a few simple protocols (news feeds, comments). In fact, it's basically just RSS+TrackBack+OpenID, plus one of the best UIs on earth.
I have no idea if the Diaspora people see it that way.

[jes5199]

sure, but I don't understand why people think I want to talk to other human beings over the internet.