[Animats]

Somebody needs to figure out a way to get this, or Diaspora, or something, going. Setting up servers for the Ivy League schools, and pre-populating them with the student directories, would be a good start. Worked for Facebook.

The problem with scaling any social network is "asshole amplification", or how to design it so a few people can't ruin it for everybody. That's hard to do in a distributed system, especially if you're promoting anonymity. (Yes, IRC channel kick bots sort of worked.) I don't see how Movim addresses that.