It seems to me that to wait for yet another startup to solve this problem and hope it becomes popular enough to become successful and continue to hope it doesn'

It seems to me that to wait for yet another startup to solve this problem and hope it becomes popular enough to become successful and continue to hope it doesn't outgrow itself or get bought by a big company to get neglected is not the way out of this mess. That's part of the reason I'm so excited about OpenPhoto and the consumer productization of self-hosting solutions. And BrowserID. And the Locker Project. It sort of looks like a decentralized social networking standard is in our near future.