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by davewiner 5072 days ago
You got it baby!

That's exactly the idea. It's a bootstrap. You use the systems that are in place now to boot up the successor.

It's never either/or. You use everything that works, that has people on it that you need to reach, as long as they welcome you.

This has been the problem with Google-Plus. They don't have an API that lets you post to it. But Twitter does. To everyone who follows me on Twitter, they don't have any idea that I'm not really on their network. In every sense that matters I am.

But when Twitter goes down, I keep posting, and people who are hooked in my feed still get the new stuff.

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Good to know I got the point! :P Can I ask about your thoughts on StatusNet?