I wish them the best of luck.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
Eh? What makes it the 'Open Alternative' so to speak?
They're planning on making the source code open-source. Anyone will be able to read the software - or alter, recompile, and run it somewhere else. (Don't like Diaspora's privacy policy? Start your own social networking site with your own rules!)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
the problem is that 90% of the value if a social networking site is the social network.
and getting enough of your social network to switch to new!shiny!social network is not easy work.
And you can bet that any company that has it's business model based around a social network is going to make it dirt simple to feed data IN, and harder than getting blood from a stone to get it OUT.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
If I read it correctly, what goes on is you host your own personal 'page' of it on your site, and it has all sorts of link-ins to be aware of your friends who are hosting it on their own personal sites.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor