Livre d'Or

Oh, diasp.org is still around, is it? That's the place where I started an account, mistaking it for the official site, and then they deleted everything because they weren't quite ready for prime time yet. I suppose it's somewhat encouraging that they started up again. I think I've added you, which is a test of this platform agnostic concept they're trying to work on; theoretically I should be able to connect my joindiaspora.com account to your diasp.org account seamlessly.

Of course, the whole diasp.org issue showcases both the strength and the weakness of the federated idea. It's great that any interested person can start their own site (are they still calling them pods?) and people can pick and choose where they want to host their content but still connect with all their friends. But it's also easy to confuse users; I think of myself as fairly savvy and I got completely muddled as to what diasp.org actually was. Plus, if a hosted version of Diaspora is bad, whether because it's unreliable or even actively evil, that reflects badly on the project and brand as a whole, which is going to make things awkward for them.