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   Hans van Zijst (hans@social.woefdram.nl)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:34:06 JST Hans van Zijst
   One of the bigger #Diaspora* servers, diasp.org, is shutting down. Quite a few of my Diaspora* connections live there.
   
   David wrote the following post Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:21:23 +0100
   
   With a heavy heart I will shut down diasp.org on May 4th, 2025. To 15 years or so of diaspora, cheers! https://b.diasp.org/2024/12/28/2025-diasporg-update/
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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:34:03 JST fu

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     • Benj⛧min
     @sandwich @hans I had heard that Diaspora* was the first of the 'verse to be a refuge to those leaving freedom denying closed source corporate social media, particularly Google+. Is that not the case?
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     Benj⛧min (sandwich@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:34:04 JST Benj⛧min

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     @hans This is pretty sad to read, for a lot of reasons.

     I had such high hopes for Diaspora. It was going to be the “Facebook killer” over a decade ago, and now I’m seeing a decline in pods.

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     Hans van Zijst (hans@social.woefdram.nl)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 06:19:50 JST Hans van Zijst

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     • Benj⛧min
     @Benj⛤min :verified: Still, it started something great. I remember how enthousiastic I was when I first heard about Diaspora*, long ago. This was how social media should be, not that Facebook that everybody and his mother were flocking to.
     
     I never ran my own server, didn't seem worth the effort because I didn't do social media at the time, but I was very much intrigued by the idea.
     
     And see where it brought us: Diaspora* may be slowly dying, but all kinds of alternatives have emerged. The concept is still very much alive today, it's just the protocol of this particular thing that's slowly being abandoned.
     
     Let's call it evolution.
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