Thought Diaspora was dead? Think again.
Okay, something interesting has happened. Diaspora, the social network that really came first with the whole “Circles” thing but got buried in the Katamari-like steamrolling of G+, has tried to one-up its closest competitor.
Diaspora wants to become your one-stop shop for crossposting across a variety of network. Not only that, but they want to aggregate all your networks into a single feed. And not only that, but they want to let you create your own mini-social networks (like Ning?), which can all hook together into this giant social network.
It’s an interesting approach. The crossposting feature alone is enough to one-up G+ at the moment, because this thing lets you post to both your Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
(What it currently doesn’t let you do is either use Twitlonger for posts exceeding 140 chars, or just give you the option to make a “condensed” post for Twitter with a link to the appropriate network. But that’s nitpicking.)
I’m not jumping ship or anything — Diaspora may have gotten there first, but G+ got it right while Diaspora was still treading water — but the stuff they’re talking about is quite interesting.
