I wholeheartedly agree that people gloss over a lot of issues when they talk about distributed social networks. Diaspora is not going to replace Facebook in Sep

I wholeheartedly agree that people gloss over a lot of issues when they talk about distributed social networks. Diaspora is not going to replace Facebook in September. I continue to have some amount of faith though. > how many of us constantly are forced to be the "tech guy" in our friends/family circle? It SUCKS. Now imagine what you have to deal with when you're hosting a node...where do I sign up.. Hopefully some kind of standards will emerge and people will find a way to monetize hosting. "Volunteers" doesn't scale. > Now add that that to the facts that normies on facebook etc. simply don't notice or care At some point Facebook is likely to do something, either through craziness or error, that pisses normies off. They originally wrote their chat functionality such that third parties could read your private chats by going through a few simple steps. That kind of thing could cause normies to care a lot. > the issue here is that this creates the need for a Google-like replacement to index these social networks I don't see why a third party index of network nodes is a problem, as long as it only indexes information people have chosen to make public/indexable.