Notices tagged with diaspora

@lightweight #ContributorsWelcome! One way anyone can help is with research, adding new projects to the relevant pages on our wiki, and updating them on the basis of your testing:
https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/wikis/

Eg X now successfully federates over #ActivityPub, or Y is adding support for #Diaspora protocols. As the fediverse grows and evolves, this becomes a bigger and bigger job.

@jessmahler the reason I specify the "AP fediverse" is that some of the other networks that now seem to be included under the conceptual umbrella of the fediverse work quite differently. #Diaspora for example, has always allowed users to choose between posting to public, followers, or subgroups of them (like the "circles" concept in G+), but isn't compatible with AP apps like Masto. #Zot apps (#Hubzilla and #Zap) have a totally different and amazingly granular privacy model, but few users.

@stevenroose people often suggest #Diaspora as a replacement for FB. I can only presume they a) never used Diaspora, b) never used FB, or c) they're basing this on the stated goal of the Diaspora founders without even thinking about whether they got anywhere near achieving it. Nothing in the fediverse has bidirectional connections that I'm aware of, let alone the rest of what makes FB what it is.

@kaniini I can't help but notice these talking points coming up repeatedly, about the existing *public* #fediverse not protecting privacy. What part of public are people not getting? If folks want fully private federated messaging, they can use networks running #Diaspora, #Zot, #SSB, #XMPP with #OMEMO, or #Matrix with encryption turned on. #OStatus can't do private, and although #ActivityPub can, nobody has implemented it well yet, and its meaningless without encryption (#E2EE).
@hellpie

"When you “follow” someone, it is a signal that you want to listen to what that person has to say. But just because you follow someone doesn’t mean they are listening back. This unidirectional model is actually a poor choice for a close-ties network because close-ties relationships depend on frequent bidirectional communication."
- https://onezero.medium.com/why-google-failed-4b9db05b973b

This is why nothing in the current #fediverse - including #Diaspora - can replace FarceBook. They're all based on unidirectional follows.

@DashEquals #Mobilizon? Or #FunkWhale? It would be great to have an events platform or a music platform fully federating over #ActivityPub by the end of 2019 (and ideally inter-operable with #Diaspora and #Zot too)
@dansup @rune

Sure, there's a lot of #UX challenges to be resolved with bridging #ActivityPub and #Diaspora. But it's awesome that #Pleroma folks are taking them on. Any solutions they come up with bring us closer to the elusive goal of universal inter-operability among federation social networks.

@jiefk using their #Diaspora web interface or a third-party client?
@jcbrand

It appears that #Diaspora have quietly dropped their buggy, awkward #XMPP chat feature. I just logged into my D* account for the first time in a while and I can't see any sign of it. Anyone know what happened there? If they have given up on integrated chat, that's a shame considering that @jcbrand made a pull request to replace their half-finished #JSXC integration with one based on #Conversejs *and* maintain it.
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7336#issuecomment-280913242

It appears that #Diaspora have quietly dropped their buggy, awkward #XMPP chat feature. I just logged into my D* account for the first time in a while and I can't see any sign of it. Anyone know what happened there? If they have given up on integrated chat, that's a shame considering that @jcbrand made a pull request to replace their half-finished #JSXC integration with one based on #Conversejs *and* maintain it.

@Ferretsyndicate that will never happen. Because Mastodon and the rest of the micro-blogging apps in the #fediverse are nothing like FB, and provide almost none of the features people use FB for. #Diaspora and #Hubzilla are closer, but still miles away. #NextCloud is more like FB than any of the current fediverse apps, and if you could integrate it with a federated #Wire (ideally using #XMPP with #MLS on the back-end), that might be something you could convince FB users to migrate to.

Also, Mastodon has decent Android clients and an API. #Diaspora less so.

@carlosceb @rpcutts claims #Diaspora got a shed load of funding. The fact they burned it annoyed him.

I think #Diaspora is showing signs of a slowdown after the initial flurry of interest and I like the minimal UI but I think the stubborn failure to adopt AP will ultimately kill it.

/me wonders if people use #Mastodon for longer form posts like a legacy blog. Sounds like it might be stretching things (well with the Web client) but that is one thing #Diaspora seems well suited for.

Trying to assimilate #Diaspora's objections to ActivityPub - https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html