Ask HN: The Diaspora alpha pod is open; what do you think?

2 pointsAngrySkillzz1 comment

https://joindiaspora.com/<p>Are any of you already there? What do you think of it? How does it fit into our current social media landscape?

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You're almost a year late. I joined the joindiaspora.com pod and uploaded some pictures but I didn't really stick around because none of my friends were there to talk to. Recently I tried running my own pod. My plan was just to host messages for some friends who were sick of Facebook. But I got stuck on SSL (I have no idea how to configure a server apparently) and haven't done much with it.

They have reasonably good code, it's fairly secure, and enough features to be useful. The one thing they don't have is users.

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