The one thing which struck me is how expensive a year's worth of cloud hosting is. No wonder there has been such a kerfuffle about "the cloud". The other costs - including rewards - are pretty much to be expected.
From my perspective decentralized social network systems seem to be succeeding, with people running them upgrading their servers to cope with the influx of Facebook and G+ exiles. However, I think that Diaspora made a few mistakes which meant that they didn't get as far as they could have in the first year. One was poor communication about what they were doing and their state of progress. Another was a poor initial choice of software which made it hard to install.
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The one thing which struck me is how expensive a year's worth of cloud hosting is. No wonder there has been such a kerfuffle about "the cloud". The other costs - including rewards - are pretty much to be expected.
From my perspective decentralized social network systems seem to be succeeding, with people running them upgrading their servers to cope with the influx of Facebook and G+ exiles. However, I think that Diaspora made a few mistakes which meant that they didn't get as far as they could have in the first year. One was poor communication about what they were doing and their state of progress. Another was a poor initial choice of software which made it hard to install.