Diaspora, a New Social Media Platform, Hopes to be Anti-Facebook

[the white rabbit]

Call it the anti-Facebook.

Diaspora, a new social media platform, is set to be released in the coming months and it looks a lot like Facebook. One difference, though, is that users control their personal data.

The developers behind the company recently released the source code behind the network, providing a glimpse at how it looks and works.

Diaspora promotes itself on its website as "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network."
http://www.myfoxchattanooga.com/dpps/money/diaspora-hopes-to-be-anti-facebook-dpgoh-20100929-fc_9846416

[the white rabbit]

diaspora n. The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C. , when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time. often diaspora The body of Jews ... www.answers.com/topic/diaspora - Cached

[Hatha Sunahara]

That makes sense. Jews were dislocated to other countries, and existed as a group, or religion, or culture, but something separately identifiable, without having a country of their own until Israel showed up. So how did they make it for almost 2000 years without a country? Could they have had a Social Network? A global one? Distributed, not centralized?

These guys developing this anti-facebook network sound like they are all Jews, and they may have a unique insight on how to do a distributed, privacy oriented network. I would consider joining something like that before Facebook, or other privacy invading network.

Hatha

[Neuro]

So they will do datamining on people who are concerned about their privacy... Yeah makes perfect sense... 8)

[Silver Shield]

Hegelian dialectic offer two false choices that furthers an ultimate goal.
All of those people who dont trust Facebook, come here, we will not share your info....
ROTFL

[Silver Shield]

GSUS is my social network.
United by ideas, not circumstances.

[palani]

Jews were dislocated to other countries, and existed as a group, or religion, or culture, but something separately identifiable, without having a country of their own until Israel showed up.
Hatha

I would guess that 99% of people incorrectly identify a country as a land mass or territory. The truth is much different. Here is a snippet from Nations and Nationalism Society.

http://i52.tinypic.com/wrbzpg.jpg

A nation is a body politic. A group of people banded together through common heritage for their own protection AND ADVANTAGE.