Diaspora

[trixtah]

As a social networking option, it's starting to get mature enough that I'm thinking about investigating it. I know some people have already joined up some pods, but if I made a pod of my own, would anyone else be interested in using it?

I'd be hosting it on my US-based hosting site, so it would be subject to their laws and whatnot, but not being commercial, it wouldn't have the problems that offerings like FB, LJ and G+ do in terms of satisfying advertisers. Also, being hosted means I can have a reasonably high uptime once I get it up and running.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

Sure.

I'm on the invite list, but would happily join a pod if you were running it.

[trixtah]

Cool! I will start excavating and see what I come up with. :-)

[radicalyffe]

I'm about to delete my facebook account and am considering leaving g+, and have been wondering where to go.

If you don't mind i'd be interested in joining your pod. :)

[trixtah]

ORSUM. I've just had the private virtual server provisioned - as of literally in the last 10 minutes - and now I'm going to start setting things up. Fingers crossed!

[trixtah]

I've had it running TWICE now, and have had some issues, so I need to sort out the crapola between the managed hosting and what I'm trying to configure. But will send you an invite when it's actually WORKING properly.

[slavayboy]

For sure I would!!! :)

[trixtah]

Cool, hopefully I can get SOMETHING working by the end of the weekend. :-)