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Diaspora, the open Facebook alternative, raises over $100k in donations
Although that's just a puny drop in the bucket compared to Facebook's rumored $22 billion valuation, Diaspora's money is all raised by donations from individuals -- presumably, people who are voting against Facebook with their wallets. It might not be knocking the current king of social networks off the throne any time soon, but Diaspora is making a big statement that there's something rotten in the state of Facebook.
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Subscribe to commentsjuliewithoutMay 14th 2010 9:42AM
They should have added this killing feature as well. http://j.mp/facebook-suicide-machine
DagurMay 14th 2010 10:51AM
Worst name ever
erkenbrand2xMay 15th 2010 4:49AM
Agreed with @Dagur...
JasonMay 14th 2010 2:38PM
I like the name. According to Wikipedia:
"the term diaspora refers to a permanently displaced and relocated collective"
...which is exactly what the population of Diaspora would be. A displaced (from Facebook) collective.
el_sugerenteMay 14th 2010 2:43PM
This looks like Opera Unite...
hmmMay 15th 2010 10:41AM
conceptually it does look similar..the idea of having inter-connected local servers. But I wouldn't want such a service to be restricted to 1 browser. Maybe Diaspora people will be open enough so that it is possible to create an Unite implementaion as well.
kendallMay 14th 2010 4:16PM
Diaspora? Doesn't that mean dispersal of Jewish people? I don't like that name.
Jay HathawayMay 14th 2010 4:40PM
It can refer to any displaced group, although the Jewish diaspora is probably the most famous. In this case, it just means the group of people fleeing Facebook.
jfjbMay 15th 2010 8:34PM
not exclusively
The definition is as such explained from the Greek:
...diaspora... dispersion, from diaspeirein, to spread about : dia-, apart. See dia- + speirein, to sow, scatter.
The word has been used to described the Jewish population outside the state of Israel because it is a realistic ad perfect description of the situation. Nothing more but an example. Check your references and take notes.
That name doesn't have to be liked or not. It is a grammatically correct descriptor in the King's English language, and therefore in the vernacular American English.
RJFloidaMay 17th 2010 9:47AM
I just contributed. I am a database Analyst and Facebook has got to be one of the most insidious scams to ever be foisted on the World. Its a case of "We will tell a lie so big and be so brazen about it that people won't grasp what we are doing until it's too late." The government would normally be responsible for policing this but OH, THAT'S RIGHT, the founder of Facebook was on Obama's Campaign staff! The Obama campaign ran off Facebook.
It's not just that Facebook "has a few privacy issues" they are fundamentally scornful of the very idea. It is a massive phishing scam on a global scale, to vacuum up every possible piece of information about you before they get caught. And once they have it, they have it forever. They have made clear that once you surrender the information it belongs to them.
I punted FB a long time ago. It was harder to convince my friends but they are coming around. I did get them to restrict what they put on at least. Unfortunately the damage is already done.
jakeMay 18th 2010 7:03AM
There's another facebook alternative, already built and focused on user privacy. AllMyBiz.com is up and running, but currently by invite only.