[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]
“Social networks are all the rage today and with that
in mind, the FSF is driving the creation of social networking
software which should provide similar functionality to Facebook
with two important differences – privacy and freedom are in the
user’s hands.“Matt Lee (below), the leader of the team working on GNU social,
says, “It is a new decentralised social network, offering privacy
and freedom to its users. We’re based on the StatusNet codebase
that powers Identi.ca.”“Lee told iTWire that the project began shortly after he began
working on Libre.fm, a free software service for discovering new
music, in April last year. “After a few months, we began thinking
about social networking features and I was hesitant to add them to
our service only, instead thinking that it would be better to roll
it as a separate component,” he says.”