The only problem I foresee is that a fair percentage of users on major social networks don't have the skills to own and/or operate their own server (or webhosting): I'm thinking the probably typical case of Your Grandmother on Facebook. I didn't see any mention of it in my quick browsing, but is there a plan to cater to that percentage by offering a more-centralized option as well? Or is it an assumption that the people who don't possess these digital skills aren't the ones who will care about privacy, etc. enough to want to move away from the major social networks and use Diaspora?
2ยข, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Karen Rustad <[email protected]>wrote: > My understanding is that the goal is for this to be a > decentralized/federated service, like identi.ca. Anyone can install > BuddyPress, but the BuddyPress installs don't talk to each other. Whereas > you could install this on your server and make your own profile there, but > be friends with profiles on other installs. > > -- Karen > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Kevin Donovan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Maybe an ignorant question, but: how does this compare to BuddyPress? >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Aditi Rajaram >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I'm personally excited about it as well, but I'm also an NYU FC member >>> whose friends are working on it =) >>> >>> If anyone knows of any relevant lists or people that would be interested >>> in a project like, please feel free to forward! >>> >>> On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Elizabeth Stark wrote: >>> >>> Several NYU FC members have started working on a project called Diaspora, >>> which they're billing as "the privacy aware, personally controlled, >>> do-it-all distributed open source social network." They've started building >>> a prototype, and are gearing up to work on this full time this summer; they >>> would love your ideas and comments! >>> >>> You can find out more about the project at: http://joindiaspora.com and >>> on their kickstarter page: http://idek.net/1OBc. >>> >>> I've pledged to fund it and I know several other FC members have as well. >>> >>> (via the NYU FC list) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Donovan >> Georgetown '11: SFS >> 630.849.8285 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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