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copyninja, I have nothing against friendica, please promote it on its own merit. There were problems with diaspora development community, but we have sorted it out and now diaspora is a completely community run project. How do you say it didn't do well? Yes, we could have done more, but that doesn't undermine how much we already have done. We are not looking at people already using friendica to use diaspora, but to people who are using neither to start using either. Friendica and Diaspora are in the same team, if you like friendica, more power to you, we don't want to pull you to diaspora. We want everyone to move to any decentralized network, be it friendica, diaspora, gnu social or pump.io.

Social Network users are stepping up to run their own communication infrastructure, because they value their privacy and they cannot trust the big companies and governments to give it, unless they stand up and do something. Join this community to protect online privacy.

I don't think it is either privacy or sharing. We have the technology to share privately, the challenge is to make it accessible to more people easily. The issue with centralized networks is, they are built to spy and sell data. I understand the importance of social networks as a great media and believe we can do better than how facebook, twitter and google + does it. Diaspora is an effort in the right direction. If we delegate the responsibility of running our communications to corporates whose business model is based on selling our data, then we have a problem. We have to take control of our communication infrastructure and projects like diaspora and Freedom Box are attempts in the right direction.