[bjourne]

It must be decentralized. Any social network in which I have to put faith in a single party is not good. Look into ZeroNet: https://zeronet.io/ Either that technology or something similar could be used to create a distributed social network.

[ben85ts]

I think the concept of decentralization is certainly appealing especially when it comes to trusting 1 or more other parties with personal information. I think encrypting data with only the parties you want to have access is extremely powerful. I might be wrong but as I understand it there is always an amount of trust whether it be in a blockchain or a single party. I understand that if the one party is compromised or decides to change their policies and sell your data etc. that it is a larger risk in that regard. On the other hand adopting a decentralized network takes a good amount of understanding and participation that might be lost on the average user. My hope is that, with a solid foundation, it would be possible to establish the initial policies to maintain and grow a network that was never owned by anyone e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content