+1. Nowadays there are zillions of alternatives to Diaspora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

I believe that to overcome Facebook we should not build just an equivalent, with similar features but free/open & distributed. "To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete" (R. B. Fuller) Personally I think we should eventually swift, in the social networks arena, from communication to collaboration... as they do in http://kune.cc