I've actually started much of the work with public private keys in a decentralized social network. With the exception of having it on a peer to peer network instead of a federation of websites the idea described above is exactly the same as the one I came up with for this project. With a peer to peer network, you don't have to worry about censorship (unless the whole network is censored), and you don't have to worry about the website owner selling your information.

To get around the spam problem, you can simply not accept connections from people who you haven't friended or aren't friends of friends (finding your first friend may be a problem).

Porn won't be an issue since everyone is basically hosting their own content. If you don't want to see something, you don't have to friend that person. My guess is accidentally seeing porn won't be much of a problem since most people will have friends with similar morals.

Everything is open sourced. It's only me working on it so the progress is slow. Here's the github link: https://github.com/macourtney/masques

I've been working on a decentralized social network for a while: https://github.com/macourtney/masques

While I'm making progress, I could use some help.

I had the idea of creating a P2P social network a while ago, and actually started writing code: https://github.com/macourtney/masques

However, I haven't finished much due to lack of time. It's open source. Any help would be appreciated.

Instead of going through a website, each node in the network connects directly to each friend and all information is encrypted. Though you can create a handle, your real id is your public key. This causes some issues when finding friends, but public keys seem like the best way to go.

Not much is done right now. I wasn't planning on any kind of announcement yet. Since the topic came up and people are clearly interested in a more secure social network, I thought I would throw it out there and hopefully get some help.

Actually there are good pickup lines. Try "Hi".

If you do want to learn to become better at talking to or picking up women there is plenty of information and help out there. No, you don't have to look like a "hunk" or good looking (though it helps).

I'm working on a documentary of the pickup artist community in the DC area. What these guys can do is amazing and most of them don't look like jocks or pretty boys. It's all social skill learned from the various pickup companies and from each other. Most of these guys are in IT, and started out with the same level of social skills as the average slashdotter.

Here are some interviews of the less than pretty pickup artists from my documentary:

Knack

Cuisine

Allen

Want to learn more? Here are some links to reputable pickup artist and dating coach companies:

Venusian Arts

Ask Romeo

Mehow's Get the Girl

Style Life

Love Systems

If you can't find something that works for you from that list, nothing can help you except possibly therapy.

P.S. Yeah, Speed Seduction pretty much worthless.