[jarin]

If anything, the hype might end up making some other better implementation actually have a chance of succeeding. If anyone else out there was thinking about doing a distributed social network, now's your shot at the limelight. You've got about a week to come up with a basic OStatus-based social network in Rails that isn't full of security holes.

[jlgbecom]

There's a ton of them, and they're all pretty mature. I'm hoping this does have a windfall effect on the ones that have already proven themselves from a code standpoint, and could use the hype that Diaspora has

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org

http://www.onesocialweb.org

http://www.gnu.org/software/social

http://www.elgg.org