Decentralization for the web
Decentralization for the web
Posted Aug 3, 2015 6:25 UTC (Mon) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)In reply to: Decentralization for the web by smoogen
Parent article: Decentralization for the web
I considered joining "diaspora" once.
I searched a bit, and as I found out, there is not one diaspora, but several diasporas. Some specialized to some country, some for some topic. For some/most, an account would expire if unused for a month or so. I got an account for one or two of them, and this was so far off from G+.
It looked like the web from the 90ies. I could have lived without all the fancy javascript stuff, but at least I expected a decent modern look.
So, did I find anybody I know on that diaspora server for Canada (I think), which seemed to be alive and didn't expire too fast ? Of on some special one for geeks ? Of course not. And none of them looked like I should stay there. Not much going on, from people I didn't know, hard/impossible to share photos, ugly looking.
I searched a bit, and as I found out, there is not one diaspora, but several diasporas. Some specialized to some country, some for some topic. For some/most, an account would expire if unused for a month or so. I got an account for one or two of them, and this was so far off from G+.
It looked like the web from the 90ies. I could have lived without all the fancy javascript stuff, but at least I expected a decent modern look.
So, did I find anybody I know on that diaspora server for Canada (I think), which seemed to be alive and didn't expire too fast ? Of on some special one for geeks ? Of course not. And none of them looked like I should stay there. Not much going on, from people I didn't know, hard/impossible to share photos, ugly looking.
Maybe I missed something.
If a "decentralized" social network means many small unconnected social networks then I think this won't work at all.