I've noticed an overwhelmingly negative vibe about Diaspora here. It seems to be widely deemed to be a conclusive failure. This is at odds with my personal experience of it, which is that it works well enough, and many people are interested in switching to it. Among my friends (particularly the non-techie ones) it has a lot more buzz than G+. For a long time I was very much of the opinion that Diaspora was all hype and no visible product, but now it's easy to sign up[1] and start using it I'm wondering what the problem is. Is there some reason I should be discouraging its use?Some complaints I'm aware of are:
* It's had undeserved hype and funding
* The alpha release had egregious security issues
* It still has some visible bugs
* Its privacy selling point is a bit overblown
* It doesn't have users
At this point none of these seem to me like good enough reasons not to be using or recommending it. Is there something I'm missing?
[1] See https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods for a list of pods you can sign up to. I signed up at http://diasp.org.