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diasp.org shutting down
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 02:42:40 +0100
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Hans van Zijst
hans@social.woefdram.nl
One of the bigger #
Diaspora*
servers, diasp.org, is shutting down. Quite a few of my Diaspora* connections live there.
David
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Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:21:23 +0100
With a heavy heart I will shut down diasp.org on May 4th, 2025. To 15 years or so of diaspora, cheers!
https://b.diasp.org/2024/12/28/2025-diasporg-update/
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Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:46:55 +0100
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
mikedev@fediversity.site
Did they ever get account migration working? I remember they had account export for years and years and Hubzilla was the only platform that could import it.
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Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:46:58 +0100
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Benj⛤min :mastodon:
sandwich@mastodon.world
@hans
This is pretty sad to read, for a lot of reasons.
I had such high hopes for Diaspora. It was going to be the “Facebook killer” over a decade ago, and now I’m seeing a decline in pods.
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Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:17:54 +0100
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Hans van Zijst
hans@social.woefdram.nl
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
Good question, I don't know.
That could be a migration path: move to Hubzilla, keep Diaspora* connections while integrating in the world of ActivityPub.
If I interpret the signs correctly, Diaspora* is slowly going extinct. Hubzilla could help Diasporans to gradually move over to ActivityPub.
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7sleepersmusic
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:11:32 +0100
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Hans van Zijst
hans@social.woefdram.nl
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Benj⛤min :verified:
Still, it started something great. I remember how enthousiastic I was when I first heard about Diaspora*, long ago. This was how social media should be, not that Facebook that everybody and his mother were flocking to.
I never ran my own server, didn't seem worth the effort because I didn't do social media at the time, but I was very much intrigued by the idea.
And see where it brought us: Diaspora* may be slowly dying, but all kinds of alternatives have emerged. The concept is still
very much
alive today, it's just the protocol of this particular thing that's slowly being abandoned.
Let's call it evolution.
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Ji Fu
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:29:47 +0100
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Ji Fu
fu@libranet.de
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Benj⛤min
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Hans van Zijst
I had heard that Diaspora* was the first of the 'verse to be a refuge to those leaving freedom denying closed source corporate social media, particularly Google+. Is that not the case?
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:30:49 +0100
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Ji Fu
fu@libranet.de
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Hans van Zijst
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
does HubZilla support the Diaspora* protocol? I was of the understanding that Friendica was the only platform on the 'verse that supports both Activity pub and Diaspora.
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:46:38 +0100
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
mikedev@fediversity.site
Hubzilla has addons for connecting with people over ActivityPub, Diaspora, and StatusNet.
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Ji Fu
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:00:06 +0100
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
mikedev@fediversity.site
Mistpark (which later became Friendica) was the first of the Facebook-like fediverse alternatives. It also had circles/aspects and was first released in July 2010 and federated with StatusNet sometime in August. And later Twitter and (drum roll...) Facebook.
Diaspora was first alpha released around September of that year and they published enough of the protocol details that I was able to reverse-engineer it and federate with them a year later (~September 2011). Google+ came out October or November 2011.
Diaspora claimed Google+ 'stole' Diaspora's "aspects" feature with Google+ "Circles" - and this presumably was a factor in one of the Diaspora developer's suicide in late 2011, but Mistpark already had the feature long before Diaspora arrived. I don't claim to have invented it. It's just a fancy-schmancy name for "mailing lists".
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Hans van Zijst
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:16:24 +0100
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Ji Fu
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
gotcha, unlike Friendica which support both of those by default and includes addons for Ostatus (what used to be statusnet,) pump.io(what identi.ca and other early status net instances migrated to) and AT (Bluesky) and a bunch of other stuff I'm missing.
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:18:47 +0100
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Ji Fu
fu@libranet.de
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
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Hans van Zijst
and this presumably was a factor in one of the Diaspora developer's suicide in late 2011,
holy duck!
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