Diaspora...
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- colossalhead
Anybody else in it yet? Thoughts. Critiques.
I just got my invite today, but so far for an Alpha release it seems pretty stable - but still a few bugs (and could not connect to the server for a bit so they might be experiencing some scaling issues). Simple, clean layout, and seemingly more activity than Google+. You can choose to follow any hash tags, and your stream is filled with content accordingly.
Seems like the early adopters are mostly geeks and creatives who have been waiting for it for a while so some interesting stuff filtering through, and people seem to be making an effort.
- dbloc0
link?
- prophetone0
i think it's this...
- excuse me my QBN friend needs to say something.. http://i54.tinypic.c…e-pill
- hahahahaaa it lives on foreverprophetone
- prophetone0
the name reminds me of some sorta incurable diaper rash condition.
"oh my god, you've got diaspora?... oh honey i'm so sorry..."
(*touches shoulder out of concern)
- dbloc0
not sure about that name...
A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion")[1] is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland"[2] or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location",[3] or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".[2]
The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of people with common roots, particularly movements of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under Spartan rule.[3]
Recently scholarship has distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based on its causes such as imperialism, trade or labor migrations, or by the kind of social coherence within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return, relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full assimilation to the host country.[3]
- prophetone0
- another facebook.dbloc
- only it's not...prophetone
- how so?dbloc
- because it's diasporaprophetone
- ha haa. yeah yeah and google+ is google+dbloc
- possibly an incurable diaper rashprophetone
- dbloc0
unfortunately it's going to be hard to compete against facebook. Even google gave it their best try.
- colossalhead0
It is actually a little different... More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia…)
But yes... another social network.
- dbloc0
huh? what? Zucker wants a piece of it?
The project was announced on April 24, 2010 on Kickstarter and reached its initial $10,000 fund-raising goal in 12 days.[5] In the weeks that followed, it raised $200,641.84 from 6479 backers, making it the second most successful Kickstarter project to date.[9][3] Later on, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, donated an undisclosed amount of money to the group because he thought their project was "a cool idea". Zuckerberg also says he sees "a little of myself in them."[10]
- prophetone0
co-founder found dead at age 22, possible suicide...
- dobre0
Or someone kill him off o_O