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by bingaman 5574 days ago
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca Status.net: http://status.net
2 comments
jarin 5574 days 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.
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nbashaw 5574 days ago
Are identi.ca and status.net distributed? Their website doesn't make it obvious what it's all about.
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liotier 5574 days 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 - And you can deploy your own !
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mlinksva 5574 days ago
Yes, using the OStatus protocol suite, see http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus
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gorog 5574 days 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.
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mlinksva 5573 days 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 (which also points out some of the rough edges).

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