<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 14, 2010, at 8:00 AM, <a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net">idc-request@mailman.thing.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Eurostile; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">From: Andreas Schiffler:<br><br>I wanted to post a quick link that would allow anyone who is fed-up with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Facebook's continuing path of commercializing the social graphs of its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>users to fund the development of an open source distributed replacement:<br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr</a><br><br>Seems like a worthy goal and technically feasible (although I admit that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>I won't be donating, since I don't have a use for such a service).</span></blockquote></div>Thanks, Andreas. I contributed, not because I have a use for Facebook, but because I have an interest in seeing it die. More background at "Your guide to the Facebook revolt of 2010":<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/05/18/your-guide-to-the-facebook-revolt-of-2010/">http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/05/18/your-guide-to-the-facebook-revolt-of-2010/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>jon</div><div><div>______________________________</div><div>Still Water--what networks need to thrive.</div><div><a href="http://still-water.net/">http://still-water.net/</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>