Yeah, I've been following these guys from the beginning of Diaspora. Everything so far has been nothing more than a total let down. What these guys are doing is borderline idiotic - they are basically asking average folks to install Ruby, MongoDB and bunch of other shit on their computer just to "be free of Facebook"
Unless they build a kick-ass installer with 1 click installation it's not gonna fly. Even if they did that, I still doubt it very much that your average joe is going to jump aboard. Another thing is that the first version gave away that they aren't the best coders and designers. There was so obvious security flaws in the design that it is a bit hard to appear like a company who's software you would give your personal data to. They tried to use the "it's an alpha, there's mistakes" excuse but in this case they should have released a public very detailed document about known security flaws and how they are going to fix them, of course this would apply only if they knew about those issues.
Overall, I wouldn't hold my breath on Diaspora project...
