You probably should have posted this as a comment in one of the existing threads; looks like it got ignored.
Is there a privacy-centric mode of generating income that will effectively have these seeds pay for themselves?
This is the key question IMO, and I suspect the answer is no. Diaspora (or a similar project) will force people to confront this issue; if you really want privacy, then you should be willing to pay for it. If you want something that is free and private, you're just a whiner.
"If you want something that is free and private, you're just a whiner"...unless you contribute your own computing resources to a P2P network that implements the application.
But how to run a social network over P2P, I don't know.
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You probably should have posted this as a comment in one of the existing threads; looks like it got ignored.
Is there a privacy-centric mode of generating income that will effectively have these seeds pay for themselves?
This is the key question IMO, and I suspect the answer is no. Diaspora (or a similar project) will force people to confront this issue; if you really want privacy, then you should be willing to pay for it. If you want something that is free and private, you're just a whiner.
As for mass adoption, I think the answer is an interoperable hybrid of paid/private and free/data-mined, as I said here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353975
"If you want something that is free and private, you're just a whiner"...unless you contribute your own computing resources to a P2P network that implements the application.
But how to run a social network over P2P, I don't know.