Joined the Twitter train

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1. Craig says

   Join the openmicroblogging train! Federation FTW!
   http://identi.ca or http://floss.pro etc

   May 11, 2009, 22:42 Reply
2. pinky says

   Yeah Craig! identi.ca is the place where the free software people hang out and that’s the train nobody should miss who is a part of (or interested in) the free software movement.

   May 11, 2009, 22:53 Reply
3. Greg K Nicholson says

   Twitter? Not Identi.ca? Ah!—you’re trying to tell us that you hate freedom. I see.

   May 12, 2009, 00:14 Reply
4. Nicolas says

   Guys, seriously, give me a break. I hardly ever heard about identi.ca or similar services, all I knew is Twitter. Inducting I’d hate freedom because of giving Twitter a try might just be a too big step.

   I guess I’m not allowed to use GMail, GitHub (not that I use one of these, but well), Facebook, LinkedIn, last.fm,… heck, even the good old Google search service either?

   May 12, 2009, 00:48 Reply
5. Mats Taraldsvik says

   Nicolas,

   Check autonomo.us -> wiki for free alternatives to most of those..

   I think the hating freedom comment was a bit tounge-in-cheek… Didn’t you ever listen to LugRadio?

   May 12, 2009, 01:55 Reply
6. chuck says

   If you have two services that are at least equal but for the fact that one is open and Free and the other is a black box why not opt for the Free option?

   Let us know what you identi.ca login is and we’ll follow you there;)

   May 12, 2009, 15:31 Reply
7. Nicolas says

   Mats: no, I don’t listen to/watch pod/videocasts, I like to read things, since that goes much faster.

   Chuck: what’s more black box to Twitter than identi.ca? For the latter the source of the application being hosted is available, right, but the service itself is still a black box to me. For hosted services I think it’s much more important a public API is available, which is the case for Twitter as wel AFAIK (although I didn’t look at it yet).

   Anyway: http://identi.ca/nicolast although I’ll only use this is I manage to multiplex with Twitter as well.

   May 12, 2009, 18:58 Reply
8. bruno says

   twitter.com/BrunoLeandrooo

   June 23, 2009, 10:19 Reply
9. Caramoan says

   Twitter in some ways is much better than blogging. I love to Twitter my everyday activities on my friends and relatives.
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   December 25, 2009, 07:27 Reply