Diaspora, the project started by team of students which is considered as Facebook alternative to sort of all the privacy related issues is almost here. The Diaspora Team has released their initial source code to let the world give a try to see how the facebook alternative will resemble. At present its in Pre-Alpha stage, hence there are plenty of limitations which you will see possibly.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS PRE-ALPHA SOFTWARE AND SHOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY. PLEASE, DO NOT RUN IN PRODUCTION. IT IS FUN TO GET RUNNING, BUT EXPECT THINGS TO BE BROKEN
Also, we really want to continue to focus on features and improving the code base. When we think it is ready for general use, we will post more detailed instructions.
These instructions are for machines running Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac OS X. We are developing Diaspora for the latest and greatest browsers, so please update your Firefox, Chrome or Safari to the latest and greatest.
This developer release is pretty great for users who expecting and funded diaspora project. As per the promise they have made in their blog update, the open source alternative facebook source code is all here to download and begin testing by developers.
- The current version of pre alpha release has all the following features,
- Share status messages and photos privately and in near real time with your friends through “aspects”.
- Friend people across the Internet no matter where Diaspora seed is located.
- Manage friends using “aspects”
- Upload of photos and albums
- All traffic is signed and encrypted (except photos, for now).
And the next version which will be released in October will have,
- Facebook Integration
- Internationalization
- Data Portability
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Wish them a luck by spreading this article across your friends community. Have fun !
Diaspora probably will never become a Facebook killer just because of its name… Shame.
I agree with the comment above, it sounds like a good idea but the name isn’t very catchy, I doubt it’ll take off.
My best wishes to their project.
wish diaspora matches a bit standard so created by FB 🙁
I think this platform is going to be a good platform for people wanting to run their own social networking sites but I do not think it is going to be of any threat to Facebook
Diaspora looks like a great alternative to Facebook. Also, Mark Zuckerberg’s idea – Facebook will still be the best social network in the World for a considerable amount of time. Let’s face it.. Mark Zuckerberg is filthy rich, he cannot fall down with his kind of money, he can invest and reinvest daily in Facebook’s development and it’s kind of hard to compete over someone like Mark Zuckerberg, he is famous and rich and has innovative ideas – that’s just a mortal combination. Competitors will be a lot, but ones who will be better than M.Z., rarely. Although, thank you very much for sharing this article, I will try out Diaspora too, maybe it will turn out to be the next best social network.