[aleprok]

We are not late with distributed social networks, because the normal user does not care how the system works, just that it works and is easy to use. If you want to beat Facebook you need to beat the user experience of Facebook instead of thinking how to make the internals of social network better. Distributed social network does offer good privacy, but privacy is not enough to compete with Facebook and you can have good privacy settings with centralized social network.

Personally I recently decided to delete my Facebook account because everything was getting annoying to use in Facebook like messages not getting sent, five clicks to remove a friend and other annoying stuff. The Facebook security policy or the ads were not the reason why I left Facebook, but the bad user experience. I felt that I had to do too much stuff to do some simple task like sending a message to a friend.