I thought Siracusa had a really good take on this in last Friday's Hypercritical (http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/81 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/81) One point he

I thought Siracusa had a really good take on this in last Friday's Hypercritical (http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/81 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/81) One point he made that resonated with me was how it was offensive to say that people wanting to support App.net are doing so to "flee from Twitter" based on the service being populist. Even discounting the fact that the entire way you experience Twitter is exclusionary (based on the asymmetric follow model), it seems willfully disingenuous to ignore the main reason people are wary of Twitter (mainly, the companies current decisions around controlling the experience, and people's fear of what they will do in the future). And catchy headline aside, if the "revolution" you're trying to start is one where people pay for the services they use instead of being at the mercy of advertisers, a country club isn't as bad a place to start it from as he makes out. And I say that as someone who doesn't think App.net has a chance in hell of supplanting Twitter (which to be fair, isn't even their goal).