twitter vs identi.ca

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging
> service http://identi.ca/
> 
> Twitter is proprietary, where Status.net (which identi.ca uses) is licensed
> under the AGPLv3.  Most of the free software community uses identi.ca instead
> of twitter, though you can link your accounts so posts to identi.ca repeat to
> twitter (and facebook, etc).

Interestingly, identi.ca also seems to have a sustainable model for
supporting their post-by-phone service, where (as fas as I can tell)
Twitter's `business model' continues to be `convince venture capitalists
to give us money to pay for this stuff in hopes that we'll be able
to monetise our userbase someday, somehow, once it's big enough'.

I guess this means that I have to figure out a different reason to
curmudge on microblogging as a whole, now.... Thanks a lot, Arc... ;)

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