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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy conce... by loup-vaillant on Saturday April 24, 2010 @10:23AM (#1290884)
If you want an alternative that will never disrespect privacy, you will need to make it distributed. This is because the only way to control your data is to lock it up on your machine, or encrypt it.

I wonder if there are standards (protocols) related to distributed "social network".

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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy conce... by drewp on Sunday April 25, 2010 @01:01AM (#1292197)
http://www.foaf-project.org/ is one of the main standards. http://code.google.com/p/xoperator/ is a bit weird, but I think has some of the right ideas of the distributed SN.
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Re:Ask HN: Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy conce... by retube on Saturday April 24, 2010 @02:45PM (#1291362)
Yeah, it what properties/features such a protocol would require. Distributed is the only way to go, where YOU host your data, or at least get to choose a third-party hoster a la e-mail.
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