While I appreciate Dalton's insight into incentivizing good behavior by treating a social network as infrastructure rather than an advertising/media business,

While I appreciate Dalton's insight into incentivizing good behavior by treating a social network as infrastructure rather than an advertising/media business, I can't help but feel he's simply asking people to trust App.net because this time it's really different. What would prevent App.net from pulling a Twitter? Or from PRISM'ing our data? App.net seems like an incrementalist approach to a problem that requires more of a revolution. I wish there was something else with even half the traction of App.net if only it provided a distributed social network with no central point of failure and a solid API to build from.