Web 3.0: Four Nerds develop Facebook alternative to peer-2-peer principle

A new social network called Diaspora is to become a competitor to Facebook. As the criticism grew louder on Facebook in data protection and privacy, is an essential idea in Diaspora, not to collect data centrally so that each user retains control over it. Donations, more than $ 180,000 for the further development have been collected.

The world’s largest social network Facebook has become one but already more than 400 million members, but more and more users are concerned about their privacy and data protection. In recent months, there were very many discussions on these topics. Not only in Germany, with its related to the handling of personal data very sensitive population Facebook gets repeatedly in the criticism. Even in the U.S., where this issue is seen much less critical, making more and more users are worried about what happens with their data.

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