{"id":7646,"date":"2010-09-27T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2010-09-27T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:13:53","slug":"diaspora-is-in-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora is in alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joindiaspora.com\/\">Diaspora<\/a>, the much-publicized coding project to create an open-source, encrypted social networking platform that will integrate with existing social networks (e.g., Facebook), has been available in a developer&#8217;s version for a week now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joindiaspora.com\/2010\/09\/27\/highlights-of-the-first-week.html\">Today on the Diaspora blog<\/a>, the developers write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [developer] community&#8217;s response to our release has been amazing. Within the first week of releasing code to developers, Diaspora is the 10th most popular project on <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\">Github<\/a> with over  2500+ watchers. We&#8217;ve had 412 forks of Diaspora to date, and about a half a million views of the code as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, developers are excited by this project, and are actively working on it. Looking at their <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/diaspora\/diaspora\/wiki\/Roadmap\">roadmap<\/a>, there&#8217;s still a <em>lot<\/em> of work to be done &#8212; but they&#8217;ve also made an amazing amount of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha version due in October. I hope beta is not far behind. I&#8217;m really getting sick of fighting with Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diaspora, the much-publicized coding project to create an open-source, encrypted social networking platform that will integrate with existing social networks (e.g., Facebook), has been available in a developer&#8217;s version for a week now. Today on the Diaspora blog, the developers write: The [developer] community&#8217;s response to our release has been amazing. Within the first week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}