Isn't this all going in the opposite direction of the rest of the industry? I see lots of people touting the "cloud" and other forms of centralized computing wh

Isn't this all going in the opposite direction of the rest of the industry? I see lots of people touting the "cloud" and other forms of centralized computing where scalability matters. Asking each person to carry around their own personal data as a diaspora node might be swinging the pendulum back a little too far from the other Facebook extreme. I don't think people are upset that there is a single entity holding everyone's data (I mean look at Google and Yahoo, they certainly have a similar amount of information if not more) -- they're upset about the way the data is handled. Slowly eroding privacy standards, weirdly-automatic linking with external sites. I bet 90% of Facebook's troubles would go away if they came up with an elegant way for a normal person to set privacy settings and then promise to not change them while at the same time offering opt-in on all future changes rather than opt-out. It's probably too late for Facebook, but maybe not for a clone.