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How does diaspora focus on privacy? The whole point of Diaspora was to implement a decentralized Facebook.

Diaspora as it has been, is centralized, and doesn't seem to be anything but a smaller, crappier Facebook.

Friendica does what Diaspora was supposed to do, and well, and can integrate with the Facebook API and download your personal Facebook feed into your Friendica feed.

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It does have decentralisation, to an extent. That's where the pod design comes in. Friendica also doesn't really fill the gap that effectively, it's slower than Diaspora and doesn't have a nice user experience. Also, the Facebook integration in Friendica doesn't scale well. https://github.com/friendica/friendica/wiki/How-to:-Friendic... The restricting use section alludes to his.

But if you were after a social network that is completely decentralised i.e. no servers, take a look at Nightweb. http://nightweb.net/

> Diaspora as it has been, is centralized

Diaspora is as much decentralized, as many pods participate in it. There are many single user pods which demonstrates its decentralization pretty well. So your statement above is false. I'd compare it to federated XMPP network - there are major servers with many users, and there are single user servers as well.

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