The farthest I go into "social networking" is Reddit and HN. That being said, why dont they, or anyone, just glue together the popular social networks in a portal-type page?
Flickr for photo sharing, Twitter for status updates, etc. Isn't that a distributed network? You might not own your data, but at least no third party owns ALL your data. I am dumbfounded by the idea of seeds, and what that is buying you. If I request a page from someone on Diaspora, whatever was in that page is now on my pc (somewhere). It has been said many times, but if you dont want it out there, dont put it out there (and this is why I dont do "social networks").
>> You might not own your data, but at least no third party owns ALL your data.
It seems that one of their biggest priorities is for each user to have full control over all their data, rather than preventing other sites from owning any of your data.
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The farthest I go into "social networking" is Reddit and HN. That being said, why dont they, or anyone, just glue together the popular social networks in a portal-type page?
Flickr for photo sharing, Twitter for status updates, etc. Isn't that a distributed network? You might not own your data, but at least no third party owns ALL your data. I am dumbfounded by the idea of seeds, and what that is buying you. If I request a page from someone on Diaspora, whatever was in that page is now on my pc (somewhere). It has been said many times, but if you dont want it out there, dont put it out there (and this is why I dont do "social networks").
Someone please correct my misunderstandings
Something like FriendFeed? e.g. http://friendfeed.com/leolaporte (Facebook bought them last year.)
Duh, silly me.
>> You might not own your data, but at least no third party owns ALL your data.
It seems that one of their biggest priorities is for each user to have full control over all their data, rather than preventing other sites from owning any of your data.
Except once you've sent that data to someone else (whether a photo, message or status update) you know longer control that data.