regards Florian

I’m going to use that when trying to explain these issues to other people.

Corporations are abusing the hell out of the copyright and patent system. What if corporations weren’t allowed to hold copyrights and own patents? What if that was something restricted to people? Would that solve some of these issues?

I was linked to your Diaspora article from someone I follow on Diaspora. And now I’ve just been reading your posts. They are really well written.

So, now I am subscribed.

Particularly, I agree that tools for user-pods need to be made a priority. I would already have a pod of my own up and going if it was made straight-forward enough.

Your suggestion about interfederation is quite astute. Those other open social networks are not really competitors, and they should be allies. One of the primary tenets of Diaspora is to move away from the walled-garden social networks that exist today. That requires interfederation. And it cannot be just expected that others will adopt Diaspora’s federation protocol. They need to actively connect to others. I was very encouraged by the ability to post to tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. We need more of that, and the connections need to be deeper.

Great post. I’m sharing this.

I think this will be important because it creates an incentive to run your own pod instead of just using an existing one.

Without such an incentive, it seems to me that the Diaspora universe will be constantly trying to implode onto a few (or even just one) pod, eliminating the principle advantage of decentralization.