Poll: Did you pledge on the diaspora project?

9 points by jacquesm ↗ HN
I'm wondering how large a portion of the diaspora project is funded by HN'ers, did you pledge and if so how much?

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No, and I might be alone in this, but i'm pretty comfortable with fb.
even with them starting to make profile data public? aswell as them changing the likes and interests around for easier datamining?
That would be a significant change from what we have now. It doesn't really make sense for them to do that. Sure, they COULD do it, but if they have any sense of business, they'd know why not to.
id guess about 65% of backers are from HN
I gave them 5 bucks, as I often do with open source projects I'm interested in. Even if it doesn't go anywhere I still support the idea.
Could you add an option "No, but I'm thinking about it."?

I wish these guys well, but they already have all the money they need, they're at 60k+ last time I checked. But I'm a bit wary of them being young, over-enthusiastic programmers. Taking on Facebook is no minor task, both technically and more importantly socially (if that's the right word).

Hopefully they get some more senior direction and open source everything so even if they fail, people can continue to build on what they do.