Another thing that had promise and went wrong. I guess nobody will know this but diaspora started when I posted a talk by Eben Moglen about replacing facebook on the freedombox mailing list.

The project went viral and got a lot of funding. Then silicon valley swooped in before we could design it properly, and pushed them onto architectural anti patterns other barely working stuff.

If we had done diaspora right, it could have been close to nostr but a few years earlier. That was the intent.

There were at least half a dozen wrong turns before actually getting some traction with nostr. This could have happened 10 years before, but im glad we have something going today...