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One of the bigger #Diaspora* servers, diasp.org, is shutting down. Quite a few of my Diaspora* connections live there.
David wrote the following post Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:21:23 +0100
With a heavy heart I will shut down diasp.org on May 4th, 2025. To 15 years or so of diaspora, cheers! https://b.diasp.org/2024/12/28/2025-diasporg-update/
David wrote the following post Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:21:23 +0100
With a heavy heart I will shut down diasp.org on May 4th, 2025. To 15 years or so of diaspora, cheers! https://b.diasp.org/2024/12/28/2025-diasporg-update/
@hans This is pretty sad to read, for a lot of reasons.
I had such high hopes for Diaspora. It was going to be the “Facebook killer” over a decade ago, and now I’m seeing a decline in pods.
@Benj⛤min :verified: Still, it started something great. I remember how enthousiastic I was when I first heard about Diaspora*, long ago. This was how social media should be, not that Facebook that everybody and his mother were flocking to.
I never ran my own server, didn't seem worth the effort because I didn't do social media at the time, but I was very much intrigued by the idea.
And see where it brought us: Diaspora* may be slowly dying, but all kinds of alternatives have emerged. The concept is still very much alive today, it's just the protocol of this particular thing that's slowly being abandoned.
Let's call it evolution.
I never ran my own server, didn't seem worth the effort because I didn't do social media at the time, but I was very much intrigued by the idea.
And see where it brought us: Diaspora* may be slowly dying, but all kinds of alternatives have emerged. The concept is still very much alive today, it's just the protocol of this particular thing that's slowly being abandoned.
Let's call it evolution.
Mistpark (which later became Friendica) was the first of the Facebook-like fediverse alternatives. It also had circles/aspects and was first released in July 2010 and federated with StatusNet sometime in August. And later Twitter and (drum roll...) Facebook.
Diaspora was first alpha released around September of that year and they published enough of the protocol details that I was able to reverse-engineer it and federate with them a year later (~September 2011). Google+ came out October or November 2011.
Diaspora claimed Google+ 'stole' Diaspora's "aspects" feature with Google+ "Circles" - and this presumably was a factor in one of the Diaspora developer's suicide in late 2011, but Mistpark already had the feature long before Diaspora arrived. I don't claim to have invented it. It's just a fancy-schmancy name for "mailing lists".
Diaspora was first alpha released around September of that year and they published enough of the protocol details that I was able to reverse-engineer it and federate with them a year later (~September 2011). Google+ came out October or November 2011.
Diaspora claimed Google+ 'stole' Diaspora's "aspects" feature with Google+ "Circles" - and this presumably was a factor in one of the Diaspora developer's suicide in late 2011, but Mistpark already had the feature long before Diaspora arrived. I don't claim to have invented it. It's just a fancy-schmancy name for "mailing lists".