Yesterday I wrote a really angry blog post which I didn’t post in the end. I saw an email from Ilya and the Diaspora* team with the title <3 and the preview just showed:

Dear Dominik –
We love you. Yes. Really, we do.

and then I started to rant. How stupid and irresponsible it is to send an email like this and how much it annoys me and that they are a bunch of numbnuts and can just go and put their mail where the sun doesn’t shine. I wrote it, I saved it, I had a lie down, read two thirds of the absolutely magnificent “Snuff” from Terry Pratchett, updated my MacBook and went to sleep. This morning I looked at it again and decided not to post it. Who cares about Diaspora anyway?

It is worth noticing that at this point I did not read the email, just the first two lines in the preview.

So this morning I saw a couple of tweets referencing that email and often linking to two blog posts: Did Diaspora Just Ask for More Money? and The State of Diaspora and Fundraising Round Two so I decided to read that email. The level on my WTF-meter went through the roof.

So there is this bunch of Ruby-hipsters, completely over-funded through Kickstarter, which even got coverage in my local radio station, who decided to start a new “open” social network which completely ignored all open interoperability standard.

And now they ask for more money.

To quote that blogpost by Jonha Revesencio:

Yet after missing several deadlines and not clearly showing your backers as to which direction the project is heading, how could you ask for more money?