I read HN every day. It is probably the site I read the most after Google reader. It is my go to for filling time between doing actual work and doing more actua

I read HN every day. It is probably the site I read the most after Google reader. It is my go to for filling time between doing actual work and doing more actual work. I'd like to think I'm vaguely down with the Internet kids, but.. Wtf is App.net and why do I care? Am I supposed to know about this already? Is this supposed to be as common knowledge as twitter or facebook in my nomenclature? Dalton is sure as shit not going to tell you, and the site is far too awesome to waste its time telling you either. Reading the API docs (really, I have to read API docs to work out what this does?!) tells me it's a "real-time social service where users and developers come first, not advertisers.". Taking that knowledge on hand and looking at alpha.app.net, it looks like a twitter clone, but presumably one that you pay for. Aren't there free twitter clones already? Anyway, rant over, colour me confused. Idk... there are lots of projects people could be building, and there is every kind of possibility this has really useful stuff in it, but from the outside it just looks like another twitter clone.