It sounds like it will get simpler. From the site:
"We deploy and run Diaspora with a deployment tool called sod, which currently only supports CentOS. We use Rackspace Cloud, but you can point sod at any CentOS machine. Sod is unfinished and probably has hardcoded configuration for our servers. It is not ready for use."
I imagine that once it has been around for a while, you'll find Diaspora packaged in all the major distro repositories.
What surprises me is the number of different servers that need to be run, tho I figure that's more my lack of experience with commercial grade social networking software.
The problem is that if there's a high barrier to entry there might be a "Google Wave" effect - people joining, finding out they have no friends on the service, and never using it. What the distributed social network market needs is a network that has an actual launch with a product, and get as much press as Diaspora did when they announced, but have an actual product.
"We deploy and run Diaspora with a deployment tool called sod, which currently only supports CentOS. We use Rackspace Cloud, but you can point sod at any CentOS machine. Sod is unfinished and probably has hardcoded configuration for our servers. It is not ready for use."
I imagine that once it has been around for a while, you'll find Diaspora packaged in all the major distro repositories.
What surprises me is the number of different servers that need to be run, tho I figure that's more my lack of experience with commercial grade social networking software.