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Creating a Better Facebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the empty-is-not-god dept.

Fed up with Facebook's insatiable need to continue to expose your personal information to ever widening circles, four NYU students have decided to build an open source, distributed competitor to the social networking behemoth. They've raised a few grand, but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.

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  1. Diaspora *? by bjourne · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Diaspora Star, is that like Facebook for Jews? Weird name, but kind of fitting considering the authors family names.

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  2. Re:Social networks by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the Diaspora website:

    "Our current implementations include GPG encryption, scraping Twitter and Flickr, [...]"

  3. Already exists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Open source alternatives already exist. Checkout WordPress at http://WordPress.com or http://WordPress.org or any one of the other blogging platforms. Far better than Faceplant.