OK.ru might be a bit more popular than Diaspora. We know about 32 links to it since March 2021 and only 29 links to Diaspora. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
As already mentioned - you can try to find her on ok.ru. She is probably using it, it's a popular social network between 40+ yaers old here in post-Soviet countries. Brief search on Виктория Мельникова who were born in 1977 gave out something around 40-50 results. Source: about 2 years ago
Russians do use social media, for, example VK, Odnoklassniki (ok.ru) but there are Russian-language and obviously majority of English speakers are not exposed to them. Source: about 2 years ago
Found this movie on ok.ru but with Russian dubs, Is there a way to legally or not to watch this movie in Asia? Preferably with English subs. Source: over 2 years ago
There are live ok.ru streams of TV Asahi and TV Tokyo that are up maybe 80% of the time. The other networks (TBS,Fuji,NTV) have nuked their live streams so many times that there are no real usable streams. It's really a dick move on the part of these networks - there are Japanese viewers whose local affiliates don't carry certain shows, and they rely on these streams as much as we do. Source: over 2 years ago
I put them on ok.ru instead. Are you able to view them now? Source: over 2 years ago
> whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now I think you're referring to Diaspora. https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand. Source: about 1 year ago
I remember making similar comments about Diaspora vs Facebook a decade ago, but people are... lazy. Yeah, let's go with lazy. Source: over 1 year ago
To be fair, its not Mastodon, its the #Fediverse. Mastodon is arguably the least rich platfrom on the 'verse. IMHO Friendica is where its at, and you can still communicate with all the twitter refugees on Mastodon, as well as meater content on services likeDiaspora*, not to mention full integration with Lemmy (which works fairly similar to Reddit) while Masto you can see lemmy posts and replies without having to... Source: over 1 year ago
Several upstarts have tried to capture what you're talking about. Diaspora was an early entry, the Fediverse is another that seems to be gaining momentum in a way Diaspora never did. Source: over 1 year ago
VK - VK is the largest European social network with more than 100 million active users. Our goal is to keep old friends, ex-classmates, neighbors and colleagues in touch.
Mastodon - Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. This is just one part of the network, run by the main developers of the project It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome!
9GAG - 9GAG is the app for you to LOL, kill time and make new friends all around the world.
Facebook - Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates.
YouTube - Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.
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