Is Diaspora dead?

[PythonDeveloper]

Diaspora, the Kickstarter princess that took on Facebook started with a bang, but now, 6 months after opening it's beta, I see almost no activity.

I scan the member pages and less than 1% have a pic, only 1700 people following #newhere, and those that are following it have not been around for 3-4 months.

Is it dead? Flawed? Too much work? What's the deal?

[RoyceFullerton]

They got into the next round of YCombinator, so I'm sure we will see something soon.

http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...

[mathewsanders]

Morale probably took a big hit when cofounder Ilya Alekseevich Zhitomirskiy died :( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/technology/ilya-zhitomirsk...

I made an account but it never really took off since none of my friends made the switch. I think the idea of a distributed social network isn't flawed but I have a feeling that a successful implementation won't look like a clone of Facebook/Twitter.

[yoseph]

Have a read of this recent BusinessWeek article: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/24762-on-diaspo...

They're still going and actually were just accepted into YC.

[debacle]

It seems like they're still around, but their initial vision has been distorted.

If they do release something, it will likely be very different from what was expected in the past.

[dbin78]

Even though the VCs don't see it, yes!