Official blog of Diaspora, the open source distributed social network, covering releases, its federation protocol, and project governance.
HN links it for release announcements and project updates, and commenters cite it for the federation protocol and to address claims that the project was vaporware.
The article you linked to in your note 0 is from two months ago, not two years ago. Diaspora is in YC's Summer 2012 class.[1]
The homepage is probably not listed as a duplicate because it is no longer in the server's RAM. [2] A simple search finds multiple discussions on the project. [3]
1: http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2012/05/15/you-may-have-heard.html
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455910
3: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=diaspora
I'm so happy to see this release, especially with the codebase cleaning. The diaspora* protocol is now rock-solid (see https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/43-our-federation-protocol-just-got-bigger-and-better ) that means the federated social web is now free and can extend!
Our most recent blog post may answer some of your questions: http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011/10/15/diaspora-not-vaporware-not-a-nigerian-prince.html
http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/
Read yesterday's post.