Diaspora Founders to Move On, Handing Over Social Network 'To The Community'

Diaspora seemed to be heavily focused on the presentational layer of a social network, rather than the actual social network itself. That seems to have been premature. I like the approach of "Tent.io" much more. Simply work on building a consensus for a protocol that people can start working with.

Really sad that they gave this up to work on Makr.io

Could someone explain to a slightly naive young man how these guys ever intended to have a viable business, if the premise of their product was that it would be free and outside of central control?

Who can blame them? It's hard working on something nobody wants.

It seems as if the group were the only ones keeping the project going, and without them there won't be much more work on it.

or "So long, and thanks for all the money."