[thespin]

Gotta love the way this is written. Well done.

As for the story, it appears President Lincoln understood the sensibility of decentralisation. Each town manages its own Gazette. The townsfolk have a personal relationship with the person in charge of managing the information.

From the end user's perspective this idea still seems as sensible today as it was then. And it's no more difficult to achieve.

In the meantime, send all your personal details to Facebook and their advertiser clients for analysis. You might be missing out on important products and services if you don't!

[readme]

So I guess that makes Lincoln more of a Diaspora guy than a Zuckerberg.

[famoreira]

That's exactly what I thought. A system similar to Facebook but in a decentralised way!

[thespin]

If Lincoln was as honest and ethical as history tells us he was, I doubt he would support a guy like Zuckerberg, and certain other backers of FB with whom FB users are not so familiar.