Diaspora

As a social networking option, it's starting to get mature enough that I'm thinking about investigating it. I know some people have already joined up some pods, but if I made a pod of my own, would anyone else be interested in using it?

I'd be hosting it on my US-based hosting site, so it would be subject to their laws and whatnot, but not being commercial, it wouldn't have the problems that offerings like FB, LJ and G+ do in terms of satisfying advertisers. Also, being hosted means I can have a reasonably high uptime once I get it up and running.