At this point, I don't think diaspora will work. The project has lost its hype, so it has no more fuel. Its heading towards the deadpool. It doesn't even look like it'll live on as an open source project.

The main issues with the diaspora project, besides buggy code, was that there was never a good reason to build it. People were not angry enough at Facebook to start learning how to run their own servers (which costs money) or pay diaspora to do it (which costs money)