Chris Foresman writes on ars technica: "The Diaspora projectan attempt to make an open source, peer-to-peer replacement for Facebook with a focus on privacyhas reached its first major milestone. The first developer alpha is now available for download and review, and the group is now accepting code contributions from the open source community at large."
Diaspora at this stage is clearly not intended for actual deployment, but it is an opportunity to look at its concepts and think about whether the approach is the right one.
In a comment on Steve Klabnik's blog, Michael Chisari mentions their Appleseed project, another attempt to create an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software, being under development since 2004 and probably more ready for prime time.
Update: I'm fiddling around with it at zumbrunn@openspora.com, zumbrunn@diasporahosting.eu and zumbrunn@diaspor.us - just in case you feel like joining.
18.9.2010, 9:41