To those interested: "Opting out of PRISM" (prism-break.org)

The site is somewhat misleading, given that using the listed software does not save you from PRISM's tap into the fiber controlled by the world's major ISPs. However, it does give a good idea of how there are software and service alternatives to what is commonly available/used. Much of the software and services I use are on their "unsafe" list (even the Linux distributions and open source projects).

Personally, I'd love to experiment with some of these. Part of idkfa's latest charter was in response to Facebook's questionable privacy practices. And as evident from my attempts to get people away from texting, I'm not above trying to change the entrenched way people use technology to address some form of paranoia or technological elitism. It'd be interesting to see what the distributed, self-hosted social networking products are like. However, finding one that would address my specific requirements would be difficult, and breaking people out of their routines would be next to impossible.