A few days ago I wrote about the release of the open-source, distributed "clone" of Facebook called Diaspora in an article I headlined "Diaspora fail". Others have taken it apart even in more detail than I have showing that there are more than just bugs but huge conceptual problems with diaspora but in this text I don't really want to address those implementation problems at all. I'll look at the "openness" as a feature. People were looking forward to Diaspora as their savior, the one to battle the Big Bad Inevitable that is Facebook. Everybody could have diaspora on their own machine being in full control and the software would be open and plugins and addons and features would blossom all over the Internet, leaving Facebook in the dust. Join me and look at recent history. A few years ago Twitter was the current darling of the scene and it was where Facebook is now: Everybody used it but it was closed, you couldn't modify it or run it on your own and you had to give your connections
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