> If I see the opportunity to contribute to their obsoletion I'll dedicate years of my life to that.
Here you go: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/diaspora
You might find Urbit of interest, if you haven't looked into it before now.
The jargon grinds on me, but it does look interesting. I added to my interesting decentralized/federated protocols collection.
There's also this recent piece [1], which was lost behind the Medium paywall until republished (apparently just today?) on urbit.org. It's a very solid introduction to the platform, its intent, and the reasoning which underlies it, and it's refreshingly free of jargon. If you're looking for something to whet your curiosity, I can unreservedly recommend it.
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpy5vt4zfuwgzax/the%20not%20so%20d...
I particularly hate Facebook though, for turning most everyone around me into US informants.
If I see the opportunity to contribute to their obsoletion I'll dedicate years of my life to that.