<story><title>Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+</title><url>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/12865334</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9712263</author><text>The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server.&lt;p&gt;The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable piracy, since it is too easy to spread any data using Bittorrent. I think a true decentralized social network to protect privacy should be a p2p app, not server to server federation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>optimuspaul</author><text>Playing devils advocate here, but I also kind of believe this... There is no such thing as privacy in the social network. It is foolhardy to assume it is even possible. Even a real life social network relies on trust, trust that can be broken very easily and totally outside of your control. Maybe the answer is to accept that privacy isn&amp;#x27;t a real thing and stop sharing things, even in what you assume is a protected environment, that you don&amp;#x27;t wish to be public. I don&amp;#x27;t think there is a technical solution to &amp;quot;people can&amp;#x27;t keep secrets&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+</title><url>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/12865334</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9712263</author><text>The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server.&lt;p&gt;The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable piracy, since it is too easy to spread any data using Bittorrent. I think a true decentralized social network to protect privacy should be a p2p app, not server to server federation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Maybe. But then there&amp;#x27;s a question of where does the content live? Most people don&amp;#x27;t have a desktop they leave connected all the time, and don&amp;#x27;t want to be hosting videos and photos off their mobile device.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;re stuck with replicating that data out to all the peers, which means you&amp;#x27;ve just lost control of &amp;quot;your&amp;quot; data again.</text></comment>