If you want people to use alternative to already existing first then the alternative should have similar+ better features.
And friendica has good people base only it lacks media coverage. And my whole point was that Diaspora did nothing but got wide media coverage and people got dissatisfied but friendica has deadly feature but no media coverage
Your wish can still come true have you tried friendica? Of course the project never got hyped at all no one gave enough money to them but It has almost all features including the federation. After proving himself ones the author of software Mike McGravin has moved on to create much more stable scalable Red#
I don't see much improvement going on Diaspora's side. I'm with "Own your data" concept but Diaspora has failed to stand upto its promises where as Friendica surpassed every other federated concepts and works out of the box. the developer even went ahead with developing new platform called Red learning from mistakes in Friendica.
Friendica federates well and uses well defined zot protocol so any one wanting to write extension to other services can easily do that. It federates with statusnet and even with propreitary platforms and it can do a lot of more cool stuffs including authenticated zrl's (Zot url's) which will allow only authenticated user to access posts. On the other hand what does Diaspora do other than having nice UX?
People have already invested in Diaspora once but it didn't do very well why do you think people need to invest again? May be providing some strong points other than simply saying "online privacy" will help people to see if its really worth contributing again.
And friendica has good people base only it lacks media coverage. And my whole point was that Diaspora did nothing but got wide media coverage and people got dissatisfied but friendica has deadly feature but no media coverage