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True, but the main public status.net implementation so far (identi.ca) already has users, and was surprisingly popular back when twitter was having all the fail

• revorad 14y ago
  Right, so why did it fizzle out? It takes a lot of energy and resources to make something like this work. Dalton and his team clearly have enough to at least kindle a small fire. Github didn't invent git. But, it became the first really good aggregator of git repos, which has turned it into a massive social network. There's nothing stopping you and me from hosting our repos on our own servers and pushing and pulling code from each other. That protocol is established. Github gives us an easy way to connect with lots of other people like us, without having to bother with hosting our own repos.