Not Dead ! (Score 1)

I am a Diaspora member and reading this post I couldn't help asking myself what I like about Diaspora. Is it the decentralised Pod structure, the circles, the simplicity of the interface, the lack of ads and arrogant apps that want access to my data? All this is valuable of course but, at the core, what I like are the people that are slowly entering my circle. It is about serendipity, my Diaspora page is like a bubbling pot of soup on a small camp fire in the middle of a meadow on a starry night. People happen to pass by, sit by the fire and have some soup. Some stay, other leave. The one who stay, become part of my cycle. No big app will run through my entire address book and suggest "friends". This is not industrial. This is a bit like real life. I am being told that development is on-going. That DIaspora will survive and eventually grow. I hope it does, I know it will. It will as long as its ethics are well spelt out and adhered to. Of course the only way it can be sustainable is if never becomes a big commercial machine, it will only live if it remains not for profit, by the members for the the members. Like Linux, like Permaculture, like a traditional village.