> whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now I think you’re referring to Diaspora. https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network).

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over 1 year ago

Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand.

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over 1 year ago

I remember making similar comments about Diaspora vs Facebook a decade ago, but people are… lazy. Yeah, let’s go with lazy.

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almost 2 years ago

To be fair, its not Mastodon, its the #Fediverse. Mastodon is arguably the least rich platfrom on the ‘verse. IMHO Friendica is where its at, and you can still communicate with all the twitter refugees on Mastodon, as well as meater content on services likeDiaspora*, not to mention full integration with Lemmy (which works fairly similar to Reddit) while Masto you can see lemmy posts and replies without having to…

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almost 2 years ago

Several upstarts have tried to capture what you’re talking about. Diaspora was an early entry, the Fediverse is another that seems to be gaining momentum in a way Diaspora never did.

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almost 2 years ago

I think that is what Diaspora aimed for. Although they made it WAY too complicated. Hasn’t even reached a million active accounts.

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almost 2 years ago

Diaspora* has never been more appropriately named.

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almost 2 years ago

For an Instagram alternative there’s Pixelfed and for a Facebook alternative there’s Diaspora*. I know there isn’t a lot of people on there but last time I checked it was decent enough that I could recommend it to family members.

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about 2 years ago

I haven’t made a serious effort at trying this, but is anyone into diaspora* https://diasporafoundation.org/.

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about 2 years ago

Even something like the Diaspora project?

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over 2 years ago

Diaspora, which is sort of a Facebook alternative:
Https://diasporafoundation.org/.

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over 2 years ago

Example of web 3 platforms are Steemit, Diaspora, Augur, Opensea, Everledger among many others while examples of Web 2 platforms are Facebook, Twitter, Binance, Upwork.

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over 2 years ago

I found a few I recognize.
– https://diasporafoundation.org/
– https://joinmastodon.org/.

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over 2 years ago

I think this is false – there is definitely network effect and first mover advantage, but in principle there’s nothing about e.g. Facebook that couldn’t be implemented in a distributed, multi-platform solution. This is essentially what diaspora is trying to do. Had something like diaspora been first and achieved network effect, then it would have been difficult to displace with a centralized monopoly.

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over 2 years ago

Federated systems like Mastodon or Diaspora allow you to join a server of your choosing (or run your own). Although your profile exists on a particular server, you can interact with users on other servers, and pick your profile up and move it if you want. This is basically the same as e-mail. We don’t think twice about whether alice@example.com can send a message to bob@mailprovider.com – it’s all just email….

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over 2 years ago

There’s already Diaspora: https://diasporafoundation.org. But the hard problem is that everyone is already on Facebook. You sign up for Diaspora, or write your own Facebook clone, or whatever, and nobody you know is there yet. So eventually you get tired of looking at a blank wall and go back to Facebook.

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over 2 years ago

Hello username, welcome to one of many nodes or pods on the network. diasp.org is run by donations rather than selling your data or putting ads on the site. diasp.org is not FREE like facebook or Gmail as they sell your data to pay the bills, you are the product when you use them. We pay our bills here by users donating a few bucks. Donation information is always in the left hand bar on the desktop or directly…

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over 2 years ago

Project site, description and GitHub link is here:https://diasporafoundation.org.

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almost 3 years ago

Maybe this? https://diasporafoundation.org/.

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almost 3 years ago

*diaspora (totally open, interoperable and looks a bit like FB, missing a groups feature): https://diasporafoundation.org/.

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almost 3 years ago

Decentralised platforms are Matrix, Mastodon, Peertube, Freenet, GNUnet and Diaspora.

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almost 3 years ago