[jancsika]

Someone should run a Diaspora pod with the following model:

1. They market it like crazy in the hopes of getting something like a few million users

2. They publicly state that they will mine all metadata for the purpose of generating an "inference report".

3. Every other week they release an "inference report" that reveals a new, dangerous way the seemingly innocuous metadata can be used. Some examples would include a) accurately gleaning more private data from the metadata, and-- if enough people join-- b) using that data to subtly influence the behavior of the participants.

Outside researchers are given access to the process in order to audit it. Anything revealed in the inference report would be assumed to already be happening on larger commercial networks.

Users would remain as long as they believe the value of the inference reports outweigh the risk to them of using the network.

Edit: formatting

[Animats]

1. They market it like crazy in the hopes of getting something like a few million users.

That's the problem. Nobody uses Disapora*.

I got an account a few years ago, but abandoned it after discovering there was nobody on there worth talking to.

[quickben]

The idea sounds like Matadors day job.

Everybody want to see the results, rarely who will want to actually be there.

How do you incentivise it?