On 14 October 2011 09:25, Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wish them the best of luck, but diaspora is one of at least a dozen >> projects of its kind. Diaspora just has the best promotion. > > Like it or not, that's exactly what a social network project needs: > promotion. Since it's only useful if people are using it and if it can > attract new users, no matter how feature-ful and feature-complete a > social networking platform is, it will fail if no one actually uses it. > I've been using Diaspora for some time now and there are very few > standard social networking features that I miss. What they need to iron > out is data portability and an API (maybe they already have done the > latter; I haven't looked closely) and it will be a very viable solution > in my opinion.
Just came across this: http://falkvinge.net/2011/07/09/swarmwise-presenting-your-idea-to-the-world/ Quite an interesting post about promoting a world changing idea and swarms. > > -brandon > > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
