5 ms·

Totally agree. I think that's the danger Twitter faces with these kind of moves. Since the nerds founded the Twitter community, I wouldn't be surprised to see

Totally agree. I think that's the danger Twitter faces with these kind of moves. Since the nerds founded the Twitter community, I wouldn't be surprised to see the next move be some sort of open, distributed, federated Twitter-clone that mirrors the existing APIs. Easy win for the client developers, no one to be a buzzkill, and it's not like spam can be any worse than it is now anyway.

bingaman 16y ago
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca http://identi.ca Status.net: http://status.net http://status.net
- jarin 16y ago
  With all due respect to the open source Twitter clones, Facebook didn't beat MySpace by being open source. It beat MySpace by being an exclusive, opinionated, clutter-free alternative to MySpace, and later on a developer platform.
  - zwadia 16y ago
    With all due respect, I think you are right, opine here: http://shh.sh http://shh.sh
- nbashaw 16y ago
  Are identi.ca and status.net distributed? Their website doesn't make it obvious what it's all about.
  - liotier 16y ago
    Status.net is the Free software that power Identi.ca - Identi.ca is the showcase instance of Status.net and the biggest to date... But there are many others : http://status.net/wiki/Sites http://status.net/wiki/Sites - And you can deploy your own !
  - mlinksva 16y ago
    Yes, using the OStatus protocol suite, see http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus
  - gorog 16y ago
    No, they're centralized like Twitter. StatusNet is like the Wordpress of microblogging. Each Wordpress installation is its own isolated island. It's the same with StatusNet.
    - mlinksva 16y ago
      Not true, see my reply above. Users on different StatusNet instances can subscribe, reply, and fave each other. You can see this in action at https://identi.ca/conversation/60337615 https://identi.ca/conversation/60337615 (which also points out some of the rough edges).
deadcyclo 16y ago
This has existed for quite some time now and is called identi.ca I've used identi.ca almost as long as twitter, and my preferred client Twidroyd on the Android supports both of them (thanks to the fact that identi.ca has an option to use an API made to emulate the twitter-API). I highly prefer identi.ca to twitter, and the only thing keeping me on the twitter-network at all is the fact that most of the people I follow only are on twitter, and for some strange reason it's very hard to convince people to change, even though, in my opinion, identi.ca is superior. I really hope they soon manage to get a twitter-pull up and running (they have been talking about that for a long time now). If they managed that I would convert fully to identi.ca. Edit: Got to update my browser more often... Sorry bingaman
- xiaomai 16y ago
  Why do you prefer identi.ca to twitter? I don't use either, but I have been to both sites. Twitter looks nicer. I wish people did prefer identic.ca, it concerns me that so few popular websites are open-platforms.
  - deadcyclo 16y ago
    Mainly because it's open, but also because it seems to be more stable than twitter and because I find the twitter web UI horrible (not that the identi.ca web UI is nice, but it's still better). Generally I almost only use free software, and prefer open-platforms whenever possible. I actually can't remember the last time I used non-free software.
  - liotier 16y ago
    Freedom is killer feature.
    - jarin 16y ago
      For people who consider FOSS a killer feature.
    - prodigal_erik 16y ago
      By rights it should be, but it's demonstrably not. Sadly the industry is plagued with a critical mass of people (though I question whether they are actually still members of our species) who don't object to being told how they may use their tools.
mountaineer 16y ago
People have been talking about this for years now, since the early grumblings of Twitter performance problems. There was no mass migration then, and I doubt we'll see one anytime soon. There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees.
- VladRussian 16y ago
  >There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees. well, if one didn't put him/herself into Myspace in the first place, the one wouldn't need to seek refuge.
- jarin 16y ago
  The problem is for a migration to happen, it can't just be a little better than Twitter. It has to be a LOT better than Twitter.

bingaman 16y ago

Identi.ca: http://identi.ca http://identi.ca Status.net: http://status.net http://status.net

jarin 16y ago
With all due respect to the open source Twitter clones, Facebook didn't beat MySpace by being open source. It beat MySpace by being an exclusive, opinionated, clutter-free alternative to MySpace, and later on a developer platform.
- zwadia 16y ago
  With all due respect, I think you are right, opine here: http://shh.sh http://shh.sh
nbashaw 16y ago
Are identi.ca and status.net distributed? Their website doesn't make it obvious what it's all about.
- liotier 16y ago
  Status.net is the Free software that power Identi.ca - Identi.ca is the showcase instance of Status.net and the biggest to date... But there are many others : http://status.net/wiki/Sites http://status.net/wiki/Sites - And you can deploy your own !
- mlinksva 16y ago
  Yes, using the OStatus protocol suite, see http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus
- gorog 16y ago
  No, they're centralized like Twitter. StatusNet is like the Wordpress of microblogging. Each Wordpress installation is its own isolated island. It's the same with StatusNet.
  - mlinksva 16y ago
    Not true, see my reply above. Users on different StatusNet instances can subscribe, reply, and fave each other. You can see this in action at https://identi.ca/conversation/60337615 https://identi.ca/conversation/60337615 (which also points out some of the rough edges).

deadcyclo 16y ago

This has existed for quite some time now and is called identi.ca I've used identi.ca almost as long as twitter, and my preferred client Twidroyd on the Android supports both of them (thanks to the fact that identi.ca has an option to use an API made to emulate the twitter-API). I highly prefer identi.ca to twitter, and the only thing keeping me on the twitter-network at all is the fact that most of the people I follow only are on twitter, and for some strange reason it's very hard to convince people to change, even though, in my opinion, identi.ca is superior. I really hope they soon manage to get a twitter-pull up and running (they have been talking about that for a long time now). If they managed that I would convert fully to identi.ca. Edit: Got to update my browser more often... Sorry bingaman

xiaomai 16y ago
Why do you prefer identi.ca to twitter? I don't use either, but I have been to both sites. Twitter looks nicer. I wish people did prefer identic.ca, it concerns me that so few popular websites are open-platforms.
- deadcyclo 16y ago
  Mainly because it's open, but also because it seems to be more stable than twitter and because I find the twitter web UI horrible (not that the identi.ca web UI is nice, but it's still better). Generally I almost only use free software, and prefer open-platforms whenever possible. I actually can't remember the last time I used non-free software.
- liotier 16y ago
  Freedom is killer feature.
  - jarin 16y ago
    For people who consider FOSS a killer feature.
  - prodigal_erik 16y ago
    By rights it should be, but it's demonstrably not. Sadly the industry is plagued with a critical mass of people (though I question whether they are actually still members of our species) who don't object to being told how they may use their tools.

mountaineer 16y ago

People have been talking about this for years now, since the early grumblings of Twitter performance problems. There was no mass migration then, and I doubt we'll see one anytime soon. There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees.

VladRussian 16y ago
>There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees. well, if one didn't put him/herself into Myspace in the first place, the one wouldn't need to seek refuge.
jarin 16y ago
The problem is for a migration to happen, it can't just be a little better than Twitter. It has to be a LOT better than Twitter.