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		haroldp on Aug 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site... Why is distributed social apparently so hard that we couldn't buy it with $150,000? Is sharing status really a lot more complicated than an RSS feed with public key encryption?

code177 on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

Yes. Yes it is.

haroldp on Aug 22, 2012 | [–]

I'm willing to believe that. Actually, I'm happy to believe that, because it just always nags on me. You would be doing me a big favor by pointing out how it is more complicated than that.

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