Good post. It comes down to inexperience, and I am sure we have all been through it ("pfffft.. I could do that in 4 hours" -- younger me).
There were red flags in their kickstarter post:
* "We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora"
* "Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG) your pictures, videos, and more."
* "We have a plan, a bunch of ideas and the programming chops to build Diaspora. What we need is the time it takes to iron out a powerful, secure, and elegant piece of software. Daniel, Ilya, Raphael, and Maxwell are all ready to trade our internships and summer jobs for three months totally focused on building Diaspora"
* "We promise to you that Diaspora will be aGPL software which will released at the end of the summer."
They also said that no similar system exists (they do)
There were red flags in their kickstarter post:
* "We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora"
* "Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG) your pictures, videos, and more."
* "We have a plan, a bunch of ideas and the programming chops to build Diaspora. What we need is the time it takes to iron out a powerful, secure, and elegant piece of software. Daniel, Ilya, Raphael, and Maxwell are all ready to trade our internships and summer jobs for three months totally focused on building Diaspora"
* "We promise to you that Diaspora will be aGPL software which will released at the end of the summer."
They also said that no similar system exists (they do)