Update #5: After the Times
Everyone,
We realize we've been conspicuously absent the past few days. As you can imagine, we've been overwhelmed by the degree of the enthusiasm about Diaspora, and we wanted to wait a few days to to let the craziness settle down. Over 4600 people care enough about Diaspora's goals and have enough confidence in us to sign up for Kickstarter and back us. Now that we have much more money than we asked for, our situation has changed a little.
Our basic plan is the same: we're going to build a great lightweight decentralized social networking framework and release it as AGPL software. We're going to use the extra money to help us reach that goal and to keep improving Diaspora after this summer, and possibly supplement our ramen with the occasional apple. :)
In addition to money, a massive number of talented and experienced people, including developers, designers, hosting companies and lawyers, have offered us their expertise. Though we haven't responded to the deluge of emails, we have read them all. We're still working through the backlog and are putting together a great group of advisors.
We're also getting in touch with other projects in the space. We had a great talk with the guys behind Ostatus earlier this week, and we are excited to implement the Ostatus standards.
As always, we couldn't have made it this far without all of our incredible supporters. It heartens us to know that so many people share our concern for privacy online and we are doing our best to make sure Diaspora turns out awesome.
Thank you for your support,
Team Diaspora
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Daniel G. Maxwell S. Raphael S. Ilya Z.
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the diaspora team:
Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy.
Four NYU computer science students who bonded over many late nights building a Makerbot at ACM meetings. After being inspired by a talk by Eben Moglen about freedom and ownership online, we started discussing what a distributed social network would look like, but coders like us can never just talk—so we started building.
I am the owner of KNOI a 6kw commercial FM in Texas -- after we posted links (shares) of Diaspora and comments about their privacy policy - our three facebook fan pages were deleted within hours!. Also please forward this to any media contacts you like. Its time for Facebook to die.
Facebook Disables KNOI Radio Facebook page!
Radio Station Facebook Page Disabled for Criticism of Facebook Policies!
On Friday loyal fans looking for Facebook Fan Pages of radio station KNOI Real Talk 997 and KRBR The Rebel's - received the response "Account has been Disabled". "Today after posting messages in response to Facebook discussions regarding Facebook's new Privacy policies I awoke this morning to find our Facebook page disabled without explanation." says station CEO Leo Ashcraft. The posts consisted of one - two line responses in discussion groups and pressing the like and share button on articles related to Leo Laporte's (The Tech Guy) decision to delete his own Facebook account in protest of Facebook's behavior regarding user privacy. http://www.youtube.com/watch... "Additionally we pressed the like and share buttons on a few articles regarding their up and coming rival (replacement) Diaspora - http://www.joindiaspora.com/ We believe that privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive." said Ashcraft. A quote from the offending (to Facebook) website says, "With Diaspora, we are reclaiming our data, securing our social connections, and making it easy to share on your own terms. We think we can replace today's centralized social web with a more secure and convenient decentralized network. Diaspora will be easy to use, and it will be centered on you instead of a faceless hub. Diaspora was announced earlier this year and requested funding in an "angel" network." Diaspora designers requested $10,000 from members to aid in designing and launching the new social site. Nearly 6,000 people responded with donations totaling nearly $200,000. This shows the distane that is growing of Facebook members. These are members that have put their money hard earned money up to preserve the social community.
"Facebook could just have easily deleted the posts, "likes" and "shares" but they chose to disable this radio stations account instead. While we feel there is no value in the new Tyrannical Facebook policies, we do feel this is an example of the new Facebook. Your information is clearly not safe on Facebook and they clearly do not have your interests at heart in any way. If you enjoy free speech and privacy, we urge you to protest and delete your Facebook account. We ask that you contact Facebook and let them know how you feel about their recent action. " said Ashcraft. He urged fans to take action by contacting Facebook as well as deleting their Facebook accounts in protest. "While it seems impossible to find a contact for Facebook - the following email address may work ip+ yowt6w5@support.facebook.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and disabled@facebook.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This is an email address I was corresponding with them a few months ago regarding an attack on our business by a former employee - which they refused to do anything about. "
Facebook's action today has caused the Facebook's pages for KNOI Real Talk Radio, The WARN NET emergency weather system and The Rebel's pages to disappear. We can no longer disseminate emergency weather information through WARN NET any longer as a result of these actions.
He says he was financially defrauded in addition, "Additionally we were Facebook advertisers and have been defrauded of unused funds paid to Facebook for this purpose. We will be contacting the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General about this criminal activity. " And urges you to contact the station if you have similarly been defrauded. If you have been defrauded by Facebook, please contact this station.
KNOI announced a campaign about Facebook's new privacy issues and behavior. "We will be broadcasting a report about this on our radio network and feeding this story to major media outlets worldwide. Please support us in exposing Facebook for the Tyrannical Anti-Social organization that they are and look for a new website devoted to this cause from KNOI."
The links shared on Facebook causing Facebook to disable KNOI Radio's account:
Leo Laporte (Tech Guy) Disabled own Facebook account in privacy policy protest - You Tube Video
Leo Laporte (Tech Guy) Disabled own Facebook account in privacy policy protest - GOOGLE BUZZ
Leo Laporte (Tech Guy) Disabled own Facebook account in privacy policy protest - EARL BITS
Leo Laporte (Tech Guy) Disabled own Facebook account in privacy policy protest - READ WRITE WEB
Decentralize the web with Diaspora
Facebook - The Anti-Social Site BBC WORLD NEWS
"Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook" @NYTimes
Please post comments on this article below. KNOI's new website is interactive - we really dont need Facebook.
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Please Note: I prefer email communications as it allows me to handle multiple project communications in a fraction of the time needed for telephone communication.
Leo Ashcraft
KNOI Real Talk 997
Http://KNOIFM.com
903-588-2199
214-231-9325 - FAX
Chief Engineer - Nexus Broadcast
Http://NexusBroadcast.com
Go Team Diaspora, lets kick some facebook ass!
I'd like to interview you at Ferodynamics.com and get down to specifics of how this thing is going to work, how you will stop spam, etc.
As you know, your idea is not new--I was blogging about decentralized social networking back in 2005.