There was a post on here a few days ago about just such a distributed system. Diaspora, and it's under development by some current college students looking for

There was a post on here a few days ago about just such a distributed system. Diaspora, and it's under development by some current college students looking for crowdsourced funding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321651 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321651