In case you havent heard until now, there is a big community project called Diaspora, which aims to decentralize social networking in order to make the users of a social network masters of their own contacts, data and privacy.
The project succeeds at this by decentralizing the entire software that runs the social network, so that users can not only command their privacy settings, what they share, and who they share with, but also can take away their data and go elsewhere at anytime.
Diaspora also totally prevents any kind of censorship you may experience on other social networks like Facebook – or your pages being shut down, or getting banned. Which makes it a very good tool to circumvent censorship. It is not owned by anyone, controlled by anyone – it is totally federated, distributed and belongs to users.
It is extremely easy to register and get into, and you can even link your Facebook account to cross-post to both social networks at the same time. How Diaspora gets you started with contacts and pages to follow based on your interests is also truly astounding.
Give it a try here, in the german node of diaspora. While you are at it, find us at Diaspora here !
