[djhworld]

I think the problem with Diaspora is that it received much attention from the media (during the Facebook privacy issue being top of the agenda for most tech/mainstream news bulletins)

Whether that media campaign was orchestrated by the developers, or their investors, or just surfaced naturally as some news stories tend to do, I think this attention didn't really help matters when it came to putting a group of inexperienced graduates together to create what potentially should be a rival to a multi billion dollar company in one summer.

They should have been given more time and let to lead more of a low profile than the charade that's taken place over the past few months