<story><title>Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>Someone should run a Diaspora pod with the following model:&lt;p&gt;1. They market it like crazy in the hopes of getting something like a few million users&lt;p&gt;2. They publicly state that they will mine all metadata for the purpose of generating an &amp;quot;inference report&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;3. Every other week they release an &amp;quot;inference report&amp;quot; that reveals a new, dangerous way the seemingly innocuous metadata can be used. Some examples would include a) accurately gleaning more private data from the metadata, and-- if enough people join-- b) using that data to subtly influence the behavior of the participants.&lt;p&gt;Outside researchers are given access to the process in order to audit it. Anything revealed in the inference report would be assumed to already be happening on larger commercial networks.&lt;p&gt;Users would remain as long as they believe the value of the inference reports outweigh the risk to them of using the network.&lt;p&gt;Edit: formatting</text></comment>
<story><title>Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tw1010</author><text>I like these guys&amp;#x27; perseverance. But part of me can&amp;#x27;t stop the feeling of sadness that they&amp;#x27;ve spent a better part of a decade working on it, perhaps the best years of their lives. I know perseverance and failure is seen as good things in certain circles, but I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever read a biography where the author spent ten years on something that ultimately went nowhere and then went on to do things of enough noteworthiness to merit said biography.</text></comment>