[blubb-fish]

diaspora is flawed by design. it will only ever be used by techies b/c either you take care of your own server or you have to trust somebody with your data.

what is needed is a facebook e.V. with a strict data safety policy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_association_(Germ...

it would cost transparently what is needed to sustain the service.

[beagle3]

That's not helpful. "data safety policy" is only as safe as you trust the people running it, and as long as you trust the government not to change the playing field.

Historically, neither of these tend to be sustainable.

[blubb-fish]

With your attitude you cannot trust anybody.

Also government is nothing bad. A part of a good data safety policy is absolutely also including cooperation with law enforcement. If you think that your government is abusing its power then choosing super-crypto is not the right battle field - you have to become politically active.

[marssaxman]

> you have to become politically active

Okay, fine, if you have the energy for it, but even if you dedicated yourself to it fully, the most that you can hope for is a small incremental change back from the brink, around the time you are old enough to retire. What are you going to do with your life in the meantime? If your government is abusing its power, which most generally are, then for practical purposes you have to treat that as a given and work around it.

[beagle3]

The problem with Facebook is that one entity has access to all the info.

I don't trust any single entity; they are too easy to pervert. Just one more kind of bad monoculture.

Strong crypto and political activism are not contradictory; they are complementary

[infinity0]

Your comment contradicts itself. A facebook e.V. with a strict data safety policy would be nothing more than another organisation running something similar to diaspora.

[freehunter]

I don't think it's necessarily a contradiction. You either have to run your own server, or you have to trust someone else at which point you might as well just use Facebook. The entire point of Disaspora is that you don't have to trust anyone. Once you have some random, unknown person hosting it for you, you're just using Facebook but with fewer people.

[wolco]

You need some server that these private pods can push to or pull from.

Or you have software that manages your local disaspora server or in the cloud or darknet.

[blubb-fish]

here are the options:

data is controlled by:

a) yourself b) your hacker-friend c) a profit-oriented company d) a non-profit-oriented organisation

a and b are the restrictions diaspora faces.

Facebook is c - not good for well-known reasons.

d is an organisation responsibly handling your data.

no contradiction.

the organization though could in fact be based on Diaspora and maintain pods.

[flaburgan]

That's what https://framasoft.org is doing. They have a https://degooglisons-internet.org/ project (degooglify the internet) and are providing alternatives to every big corporate services out there. https://framasphere.org is their installation of diaspora* built against facebook. And they are non-profit. (You can switch the language to english if you do not speak french)