I didn't downvote you, but I'm not aware of any "network" (by which I assume you mean website or application) that matches the requirements you set. Open source websites simply don't exist - as it's impossible to actually validate that the code running on a server matches whatever source code a company might distribute, and every site and application attempts to limit or control access to your data in some way.

Hacker News itself explicitly doesn't share their fork of the Arc forums, and don't allow raw access to your data.

GNU Social is Open Source and federated.

Your criticism is still valid, obviously there is no way to validate that a GNU Social instance is not running modified code.

But the federation itself mitigates this to some extent. If you don't trust one instance, you can always fire up your own.

I'm not sure I really need much code running on a server that I don't control. I could just share my data directly with those people I want to, instead of handing it off to FB to catalog and exploit.

There are plenty of networks that fit this requirement!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408968

Fair enough, but the entire web doesn't, which makes jsprogrammer's imperative practically impossible if taken at face value, unless one wants to avoid most of modern technological society altogether.

No, the entire web doesn't. One can still reject secret code and proprietary databases while still accepting that they exist. One can even still use them.

HN is known for its inability to downvote properly. Gave you an upvote. :)

Thanks. I know :) Unfortunately, others have since come and bumped the comment back down.