[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 14 October 2011 09:25, Brandon Invergo <b.invergo at gmail.com> 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.
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> 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.

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