I'm only peripherally attached (I've got a ... long-dormant Diaspora account), but there are a number of semi-inter-related open-social projects, which talk to various extents. "The Fediverse" includes a few of those, and I think it has bridges/gateways to Diaspora.
Frendica is another, I think, related protocol.
The problem generally is that the communities are small, diversified, hosting is a hurdle for virtually anyone, and individual instances can be finicky.
(On Mastodon -- a different technology entirely, but similar in concept -- I have two accounts on different instances, and since April have found that one or the other has been down, unavailable, or technically unusable for up to weeks at a time.)
Should some nucleating group decide that they were going all-in on Diasapora (or a compatible tech), that might make a difference. Meantime, everything seems stuck in slow-start mode.
Cool. I just signed up on Mastadon. Have you tried patchwork yet?
The slow-start mode seems to be default mode for all new social media platforms while FB is dominating the space.
I could see a service business rolling Diaspora out on-site to organizations.
I think poaching users is fair game and should be perfected across all the platforms. Basically, sharing on FB links that are hosted on a Diaspora instance. So the act of sharing on FB increases exposure for the instance.
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I'm only peripherally attached (I've got a ... long-dormant Diaspora account), but there are a number of semi-inter-related open-social projects, which talk to various extents. "The Fediverse" includes a few of those, and I think it has bridges/gateways to Diaspora.
Frendica is another, I think, related protocol.
The problem generally is that the communities are small, diversified, hosting is a hurdle for virtually anyone, and individual instances can be finicky.
(On Mastodon -- a different technology entirely, but similar in concept -- I have two accounts on different instances, and since April have found that one or the other has been down, unavailable, or technically unusable for up to weeks at a time.)
Should some nucleating group decide that they were going all-in on Diasapora (or a compatible tech), that might make a difference. Meantime, everything seems stuck in slow-start mode.
Cool. I just signed up on Mastadon. Have you tried patchwork yet?
The slow-start mode seems to be default mode for all new social media platforms while FB is dominating the space. I could see a service business rolling Diaspora out on-site to organizations. I think poaching users is fair game and should be perfected across all the platforms. Basically, sharing on FB links that are hosted on a Diaspora instance. So the act of sharing on FB increases exposure for the instance.
I haven't.
https://mammouth.cafe/@dredmorbius
https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius
First is primary, though I hop back and forth a fair bit.
Mastodon instances are actually part of the Fediverse (OStatus)
As I'm aware.
Largely through the whinging of previous Fediversalists.