With backlash brewing against Facebook’s lack of privacy control, perhaps it was only a matter of time before a crew of savvy programmers developed an open source alternative that made a premium of user-specified privacy controls.
BBC’s Maggie Shiels reports on Diaspora. Although still just an idea, the Diaspora team consists of four NYU students who are committed not necessarily to developing the Anti-Facebook, but a social networkign platform that reverts control of data back to users. They spearheaded a fundraising effort through Kickstarter with the goal of securing $10,000 in start-up capital with the ambition of developing the project over the summer. To date, they’ve raised almost $100,000–confirming that Facebook users are indeed eager to leave the social network.
More details about the project are available here.
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