Diaspora: an Open Facebook alternative. Would you switch over to Diaspora?

I would certainly consider using an open facebook alternative but getting your friends to embrace a new platform may be difficult. Right now I have very few people that are even willing to use Google Buzz (based on google wave). It's also a pain to move you friend lists over to new social networks.

If they had a way to import friend lists and photos and whatnot it might be a really great service to use.

In reality no one is switching anywhere. Facebook has half a billion users, and years of your use history. Will other social networks arise.

Of course they will. But Facebook it king and is likely to stay king for a long time to come. They've interwoven themselves so deeply into the fabric of the web and our lives that I can't imagine Diaspora or any other alternative will be a viable competitor.

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