Thread: Proposal for Jolla to use open social networks
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shmerl is offline shmerl
2013-06-13 , 22:52
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#25
Originally Posted by rotoflex View Post
If you've got a Diaspora membership, congratulations.

I visited their website & applied for a membership as directed YEARS ago, nothing happened, not even an acknowledgment via email.

A year or so later, I visited their unchanged website & applied again, still nothing.

I seriously disbelieve there's anything there, as much as I would appreciate a less-evil alternative to Facebook & Google.
You didn't get the concept of Diaspora right - it's decentralized and there are many pods (same like there are many XMPP servers or many e-mail servers and etc.). And they all can communicate with each other. There are many pods with open registration (and always were). There is completely no point to wait for anything, just find a pod and register:

https://diasp.eu/stats.html
https://diapod.net/active
http://podupti.me

If you want you can even run your own pod (Diaspora is free software): https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora...llation-Guides

What you encountered is probably that the largest pod (https://joindiaspora.com) which is run by the team which started the project was closed for registration originally. Not only it's open now, you didn't really have to use it, as I said, there were always many other open pods.

There is a lot going on there, so give it a try.
Last edited by shmerl; 2013-06-13 at 23:02.
 

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