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Well this discussion is becoming a little bit political. Here my point : sometimes, choice is not sufficient. Economic studies proved it. For exemple, the market is not self-regulated by pure and perfect competition. It would require people to be informed of a huge amount of informations. It's simply impossible and utopic.

In our case, people daily accepts ToS without even reading them, thought it is legal contract. E.g : Facebook is the owner of every little thing posted on their network. And very few people are aware of that. There is no choice when you don't have all the informations. And ToS don't provide these information as soon as people don't even read them.

I'm strongly opposed to third-party because I think it is a wide opened door to overindulgences with people's rights.

right I think I catch your point.. but I wonder if in the future.. would it be a way to control what sort of third-party stuff could be developed for an opens source application or platform ?? I mean, a way to filter the commercial implications or lack of privacy etc.. but alwyas allowing others to develop things that could (eventually) would grow up (modularity) a platform..
otherwhise the developers of diaspora should try keep "developing" teh features that the community keep requiring ..
I will try to expose my ideas a bit clearer later on .. but I think this issue is interesting ...
personally, I have tried to expose some features that I would like seeing in a social network but not sure if diaspora developres would ever consider on focusing on it (everybody have different needs or ways in which they would like controlling the way they share with others.. ) is like in teh "real life" isn't it ??

anyway have to be away now .. would keep looking at the feed-backs and discussions ...

PS: by the way, even though is not related to the issue of extensions or apps etc..) but I would like to know why fb makes difference between "groups" and "communities" this gets on my nerves I have tried to set a group in fb then someone else suggested me a community page instead.. I don't understand the differences and is affecting the fact that I have to keep posting in both groups or pages since not sure which one would be better.. as far as I have seen teh features related to share information are exactly the same.. (I don't see substantial differences.. do you ??) this topic should be part of another sort of discussions I know
but for example I was trying to expose a feature I would like seeing about been able to meet groups (groups able to meet up or join other groups) I have nto seen this in fb (would this be considered a feature ?? is this something that could be done as a third-part app ? or should it be part of the diaspora platform itself ?? sorry for my ignorance on this issues but I need to expose these sort of needs .. it would be great if social networks would offer more and more options related to way we manage interaction adn share information ...
hope it makes sense...
cheers .. and thanks !

Actually, the only way to control the developped third-parties is to adopt Apple's strategy : centralized repo, comunity code review, ToS approbation which more or less (rather more than less...) contrary to D*'s undertakings...

Currently, the problem of D* developement is less the complexity (there's a lot a documentation on rails and the community on IRC is very present) than the amount of active developpers (30 declared for the last release).