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Do they have a business model? YC is not a charity.

There's plenty of YC startups that don't have or haven't had a business model in the beginning.

Diaspora on the other hand has an obvious business model. Selling turnkey hosting.

To whom?! To all the same people who purchased their own email servers for personal use? That should be about zero people total.

How about all the people who pay for Wordpress and MovableType?

Consumers? I'd say abut zero, too. A small business type would pay for wordpress to get his word out, but a regular person with a day job? I don't see this happening. And I don't see Diaspora being appealing to small business types, unlike wordpress.

There is currently no way to make money in social networks. Maybe someone could invent one, that would be interesting to see.

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