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Did you guys know that Facebook blocks you from posting your Diaspora profile as a link to your Facebook wall?
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At least me and my friend here, what about you? Does it work for you? Note that this works fine if you post the link as a regular status update (just text), but if you choose to (or rather, facebook tries automatically to) post it as a "link" - the error message appears.

Feb 16, 2011 4:03pm PST

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Did you guys know that Facebook blocks you from posting your Diaspora profile as a link to your Facebook ... : gakera
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  Fuck Facebook : Vanitas
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    YEAH BRO!!!!!!!!!! : FrayLo
    - Face fuckbook? : Dave-A
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  people take Diaspora seriously? i thought we all understood that these are a bunch of kids and the likel... : electroly
  - I'm not taking it seriously just yet, but my FOSS friends are all haranguing me about it. : gakera
  - Not sure if I'd knock it for being made by amateurs (Facebook and Twitter were both pretty simple when th... : steauengeglase
- That's not at all anticompetitive! : Freon
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  have you tried this multiple times (not just today) sometimes their link system fucks up and they won't l... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  - This is the answer. I had the same thing happen last night and I was posting a link to cnn.com. It's ju... : riptyde
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    Me and my friend both tried just now, she got the same result : gakera
    - And? Try again in 30 minutes. If the link system is down for you... chances are it's also going to be dow... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
- bit.ly that shit : pixelat3d
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  what's diaspora? : skelom
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    open source socail framework similar to facebook. The idea is to provide a non corporation backed social... : sKetchflow
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      lol "non corporation backed social site". That's what Facebook was before it became a corporation. Same... : riptyde
      
      oh I know. I think the concept is a wee bit silly, but I applaud people for trying to make it so. : sKetchflow
      
      That and naming their service "diaspora" is really damned arrogant, hehe : riptyde
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    As I learned from my jewish professor in my mass communications course, it is the spread of Jewish people... : ryuuseki
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      The diaspora is commonly accepted to have begun with the 8thâ€“6th century BC conquests of the ancie... : rasputinreborn
      
      from wiki : rasputinreborn
      
      tldr: it means a mass exodus of a population out of their own homeland. : riptyde
- What's diaophsohis? : CrustaR
- Could it be because it's using https instead of http? : Daeadin