{"id":405,"date":"2010-09-16T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=405"},"modified":"2010-09-16T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:31:22","slug":"diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/09\/16\/diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joindiaspora.com\/\">Diaspora project<\/a> was announced to much media hype. It was going to be the distributed and open source answer to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Today I installed their alpha, which was surprisingly easy on ubuntu. It&#8217;s written in ruby, and missing even basic functions, but what&#8217;s working looks promising. Basically it doesn&#8217;t suck. The Ajaxy bits are slick. It&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> vapourware! I mean, it&#8217;s got a hell of a long way to go yet but the idea of running local social networks which can share content and move accounts around &#8212; it&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s really not that much to Facebook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wall<\/li>\n<li>Photos<\/li>\n<li>Events<\/li>\n<li>Groups<\/li>\n<li>Comments<\/li>\n<li>Likes<\/li>\n<li>Realtime Chat<\/li>\n<li>Messages<\/li>\n<li>Profile management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can actually live without foobarville and the pages, apps and advertising. Diaspora have focused so far on wall+comments.<\/p>\n<p>So, in summary, a promising beginning. Not yet ready to run even as a very experimental service &#8212; key things like account creation don&#8217;t work &#8212; but I&#8217;ll watch with interest. I&#8217;d love to get away from having the world tied to facebook and twitter, no matter how useful they are. There&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done and they are looking for patches, but I&#8217;ve got enough projects right now!<\/p>\n<p>Techs that Diaspora uses: Ruby, Rails, Rubygems, MongoDB, Imagemagick, git.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, the Diaspora project was announced to much media hype. It was going to be the distributed and open source answer to Facebook. Today I installed their alpha, which was surprisingly easy on ubuntu. It&#8217;s written in ruby, and missing even basic functions, but what&#8217;s working looks promising. Basically it doesn&#8217;t suck. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diaspora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}