Diaspora’s First Year
Diaspora: from 4 to >100K users, from 0 to >7K commits, from alpha to beta soon? http://eicker.at/DiasporasFirstYear
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Gerrit Eicker 08:52 on 18. September 2011 Permalink
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Gerrit Eicker 08:53 on 18. September 2011 Permalink |
Diasporial: “[September 15th] is a very special day for the Diaspora project. It has been exactly one year since the guys released the Diaspora source code! For a year now, people have been able to contribute to this project and set up pods. And so they did! Till date, 7371 commits have been made by the contributors and the four founders. In only a years time, the amount of Diaspora users has grown from 4 to over 100.000, spread over lots of pods! … It is rumoured that Diaspora will hit beta in November, on its Alpha release anniversary.”
Diaspora: “We know that if you’re not a contributor and don’t follow us on Github, it’s hard to see Diaspora grow and evolve. Now that Diaspora is moving into its second year and a new phase of development, here are some numbers on the progress we’ve made. … Our developer community is growing. Diaspora has had over 100 unique code contributors and countless others have edited our wiki and updated Diaspora’s translations in over 51 languages. We have over 4,600 followers and over 840 forks, which means that tons of developers are checking out our code. That makes us the sixth most popular project on GitHub, right behind great open source projects like JQuery, Ruby On Rails, and Node, just to name a few.”
Diaspora: “There’s been big news in the social networking world recently, and we can’t help but be pleased with the impact our work has had on two of the biggest developments. We’re proud that Google+ imitated one of our core features, aspects, with their circles. And now Facebook is at last moving in the right direction with user control over privacy, a move spurred not just by Google+, but more fundamentally by you and tens of thousands of community members, as well as hundreds of thousands of people who’ve lined up to try Diaspora* – that is, by all of us who’ve stood up to say ‘there has to be a better way.’ We’re making a difference already.”
RWW: “There are things about Diaspora that still are unique among its competitors. Not only is it open-source, it’s decentralized and distributed. Users are encouraged to set up their own servers. But these are not features for normal human users. In that category, the social networking superpowers seem to have Diaspora cornered. … Diaspora has been called the anti-Facebook for its strong privacy stance, and it had ‘aspects’ before anyone knew about Google Plus and its circles. … If Google Plus has taught us anything, it’s that normal people don’t feel like leaving the social networks where they already feel settled. … Is there anything Diaspora can do? I think so, but it’s a departure from it’s current incarnation, which is an awful lot like Google Plus (or vice versa, or whatever). It’s unrealistic to expect a mass exodus from one social network that works to another of which no one has ever heard. Diaspora’s potential is in its ability to syndicate to our other services (currently Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr) while still allowing us to own our data. … If Diaspora is built as a publishing platform that lets us own our content and direct it to our existing networks – and especially if we can read from them, too – it would be an awesome, welcome tool that even Dave Winer could love. But if the launch of Google Plus wasn’t splashy enough to start a mass Facebook exodus, a later launch of a service that looks the same is not going to do it.”
TNW: “Diaspora has never pitched itself as direct competitor to the likes of Facebook – more an alternative model for how social networks could be designed. However, it’s gained a reputation from observers as ‘that quirky Facebook alternative that never quite made it.’ Whether there’s a need or desire for its product or not, it seems there’s life in the Diaspora team yet.”
Some ‘historical’ Diaspora posts here on Wir sprechen Online:
Diaspora « Strange Realms' Blog 15:15 on 21. September 2011 Permalink |
[…] Diaspora came out last year in alpha, in september 2010. It’s a decentralized open-source social network. It’s sad to see Google has stolen many features from Diaspora to create Google+. […]
Social Freedom « Wir sprechen Online. 20:54 on 29. September 2011 Permalink |
[…] The Diaspora Project, a fun and creative community for social freedom; http://eicker.at/SocialFreedom […]
Diaspora Marketing? « Wir sprechen Online. 12:20 on 7. October 2011 Permalink |
[…] The public perception of Diaspora is low: time for some questions regarding its marketing; http://eicker.at/DiasporaMarketing […]
Diaspora #NewHere « Wir sprechen Online. 08:42 on 5. November 2011 Permalink |
[…] Joined Diaspora 3 months ago (#62659). Now there are more than 150,000 saying: #NewHere Join! http://eicker.at/DiasporaNewHere […]
Ilya Zhitomirskiy « Wir sprechen Online. 07:49 on 14. November 2011 Permalink |
[…] RIP Ilya Zhitomirskiy: Co-founder of open source social network Diaspora dies at 22; http://eicker.at/IlyaZhitomirskiy […]
Diaspora Media Coverage « Wir sprechen Online. 07:50 on 19. November 2011 Permalink |
[…] Diaspora has a media coverage page finally, where journalists find current reviews; http://eicker.at/DiasporaMediaCoverage […]
Diaspora Growth « Wir sprechen Online. 10:14 on 4. December 2011 Permalink |
[…] Diaspora just hit a quarter of a million Diaspora Seeds on the developers’ Diaspora Pod alone; http://eicker.at/DiasporaGrowth […]