Good luck guys...
sounds good!:..
*.^

Lot's of hand waving and irrelevant word padding in this video.

This will be a sub-par amateur product that will be identical to other services that already exist in this space. And I'm being very, very optimistic here.

For the love of god stop milking Facebook for your 10 seconds of fame, it's pathetic.

P.S If this fails, you can also go the Google route and claim you can build a disturbed search engine without ('insert some scary privacy stuff here') in a few months.

And obviously, since you will be working tons of hours, you will overtake Google in matter of months (don't forget to sneak in the word OPEN SOURCE a few times).

People do not be fooled by this Diaspora group. Many of the internet community has heard about this New World Order mafia that is behind starting these wars in the middle east, attacking America and using the media to say it was the arabs They are destroying our country and the rest of the world through their corrupt banking practices. Well these are the same people who own Facebook, My Space, Twitter YouTube, Google and more. These people make these sites to gather information on people and to monitor what we think and if and when we find out about their attack on our lives. This Diaspora group is backed and financed by the same people. All of these guys would qualify to be Israelis and they are going to do the same thing as Facebook. College guys raised $100,000. Bullshit. They are pretending to be a solution because if they don't do it now someone they don't control will. You put your whole life and everyday thoughts and activity on your profile and they will come and get you if you get out of hand like I am right now. This is the same way My Space, Facebook and YouTube was created. Financed by this "New World Order" mafia and then the press release tells us its something other than what it really is.

@T.S - I don't think you get the point. Did you watch the video? The basis of Diaspora is that they *never* get your data at all. There is no hub. They can't ever give your private data away, because at no point will anyone but you ever control it. That's not just a cutesy little philosophy about how they will run their system - that's a straight-up fact.

Diaspora is, in this sense, more comparable to e-mail than Facebook. The inventor of e-mail can not look at your private conversations, because at no point do your conversations ever come anywhere near his personal computer. Similarly, the point of Diaspora is that it is Facebook, but decentralized: if you want to send an update straight to your friends, it goes *straight to your friends*, encrypted it such a way that no one but your friends could ever access it, not even someone spying on your communications.

It's an amazing concept, and I really hope that it reaches fruition. By dedicating 3 months to it, the Diaspora group helps ensure that it might actually happen, unlike most open-source projects that languish after time. The media attention helps ensure that it might get some amount of traction, as well.

I'm pretty excited.

I will use it!
facebook.com/pages/I-will-use-Diaspora/118870421478833

I just learned about this project yesterday and only started checking it out today. I like the whole privacy concept but bringing all info to one central location sounds kinda "Big Brother" ish. Kinda like electronic medical records for all Americans. I see the value if this data would be used solely by doctors to help make intelligent decisions about your health care but the potential for the government to use this data to decide who does or doesn't get treatment, etc. is the scary part. I guess I don't fully understand the concept yet. I guess if all data is encrypted I'd be more comfortable with it but it has to be decrypted at some point for viewing. How is it protected after that happens? Keep posting videos and blogging more details to help us better understand how it all works. I gotta admit NYU being a liberal breeding ground doesn't bode well in my book but I know there are must be some conservatives on America's campuses; even at NYU so I'm going to trust that you have it right; at least for now. Good luck!

Well I've learned not to believe much of what people say. Especially certain people who have the ability to put harmless looking individuals in front to sell an idea and be the "face" of an idea or enterprise. Don't you remember when My Space and Facebook made claims of information safety? I guess you forgot that. We were also told Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or that Jessica Lynch was kidnapped then she told congress the media lied about her story.

You speak of Diaspora being more comparable to e-mail than Facebook. Emails go into a data base that can be accessed. How many people have been indicted on their past email and IM? Remember "climate-gate"? When hundreds of emails were release, not by a hacker but most likely an insider who did like that lies being told about climate that would result in ordinary people having to pay (carbon taxes) just to breath. The emails showed scientist co-ordinating their lies to make "man-made" global-warming believable.

You sound like an upbeat positive kind of guy but I don't trust you nor these other guys because they are of they same crowd that have been extremely clever at pretending to be innocent of trickery but time and time again have been caught red-handed, like in malls just before 911 selling zoom-copters and beauty products and cheap art while at the same time spying on America and illegally gathering information on us. Mossad agents no doubt. Sorry man, I want a peaceful world but we have people who start wars based on lies to get others to fight the people they hate. The internet is a major element to this activity. If you were a communist in the 1950's (by the way the communist were worst than Hitler they killed 60 million christians in Russia) and the internet existed you wouldn't go into a government office and spy, you would have a front as internet security for that government agency. Many people are now aware of the tricks because of the internet. Its like sitting in a library full of books that commies thought they'd burned.

If this project truly is brought out as an open source project, I wouldn't be so concerned. If it gains enough traction, there'll be plenty of vetting on privacy concerns from the thousands of eyes staring at the code.

I'm looking forward to what comes of this, hopefully, a good alternative to Facebook. I prefer to own my information, and right now in social media, there is no available product.

Being open source, and being a developer, I'm looking forward to sinking my programming teeth into this.

faggots.

i can't resist wanting to punch these asshats in the face every time i see them.
they've gotten so much press recently, and have nothing to show. this will never reach critical mass.
you're all talk, nerds.

Unfortunately I think these clowns will do this because if the jewish money pigs in America want something to fly, it flys. Their control of America's money and media is all they need. Just search and see who owns Starbucks, Google, Yahoo, Time Warner, Most sports franchises, NBC, ABC, CBS, HBO and others. Look at who's the president of De La Hoya's fight promo co. Its a jewish (morrano jew-spanish jew) De La Hoya wouldn't have that shit if they didn't approve and give him the capital. But they put their man in place to watch the whole thing. Plus the jew is aggressively promoting hispanics to positions over all others. It won't work but they're trying. Most likely these guys will do this. I hope not though

perhaps ur 'nodes' are gonna be as childish and awful as this video.

Are you the guys from "Road Trip"? Haha, no! I like you! Good luck!

guys, i have no idea if you are genial or crazy. maybe both. anyway, good luck with this project! i want to join the network as soon as i can.

good luck (diaspora = awesome)

Great work, we need your open source willingness

perhaps a female human being would be helpful in designing a social network for all ...

good luck!

Get the show ...ON!

FACEBOOK has just deleted my 5k-friend profile for no reason so.. let the DIASPORA revolution begins!

i do not have a clue what you guys talking about. let's wait and see. and, of course, good luck to you!

@TS
You might be right (probably are), but there is good things too, as is open-source.
And the whole project is decentralized, which means that technically inclined people now and hopefully soon everyone, can keep their own data at home, on their own system. The people who make the network don't own the network because they can't.

And one thing's for sure: people like facebook so they will continue to use it, despite the warnings, and this diaspora project: that's the people for the people...

If we want to save the world we need a positive approach and maybe some naivity ;-)

Keep up the good work guys! :) Wrote a blog post about you guys in Norwegian, and will spread the word a little on this side.

thunki.com/blog/2011/02/10/diaspora-facebook-alternativet/

Hopefully this project will gain a "wikipedia-effect," in that hundreds of good developers will work on extending and making this a truly great product over time.