Diaspora Public Alpha Coming Out by Thanksgiving; Facebook, You’ve Been Warned

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What is Diaspora you ask perplexed? Well that’s the name of a totally new social network that’s going to go head to head against Facebook in the very near future. We talked about the Diaspora team formed by Ilya, Maxwell, Daniel and Raphael, and we can’t wait to see how Diaspora will feel and look like.

Sure their quest to bring social networking to the crowds, while offering better privacy features at the same time, is definitely most welcomed. But will they actually manage to fight Facebook? Facebook is a giant service with more than 500 million subscribers and so many of them don’t care all that much about all those privacy breaches they suffered in the recent years.

Those of you that want to have better control of your private parts of your lives but still want to be active on at least a social networking site should check out Diaspora next month. The team announced that a public Alpha version of Diaspora will be available at some point before Thanksgiving so anyone interested in trying it out, “not just developers” will have a chance to do so by the end of November.

According to the announcement made today, Diaspora is constantly evolving. In fact there are quite a few new features that have been added this month, but although they make plenty of sense on paper we’re still waiting to actually experience them ourselves:

• Public messages are can now be posted to Twitter and Facebook
• Friends can now be in multiple aspects
• Re-sharing of status messages to aspects other than the one originally posted to
• An invite system for inviting your friends not hip to Diaspora yet
• Email notifications on new friend request and acceptance
• Account data is exportable
• A more friendly “getting started” experience

So, anyone interested in a new social network? Anyone particularly interested in Diaspora?