Goodbye Twitter and your buggy service. Goodbye Jaiku and your spammy bot. Goodbye Pownce and your 20 users. Hello Identi.ca and Free Software. Reasons for switching to Identi.ca for my microblogging service:
- The code powering the service is Free Software, licensed under the GNU Affero GPL.
- Create an account and login to the account using OpenID
- Stable (so far) Jabber support
- Utilizes the Open Service Definition
Wait a minute. Rehash that list. Free Software, OpenID, Jabber and an Open Network Service. Sense what I’m sensing? Identi.ca is all about openness and freedom\. Uh, yeah. Signed up, and ditched the other proprietary solutions. I would be surprised if RMS had issues with this service (actually, I probably wouldn’t be surprised, but you get my point).
However, Identi.ca is a bit wet behind the ears currently. Jabber interactivity with the bot is extremely limited. SMS is planned, but not currently implemented. Subscribing to other users is a bit of a pain currently. No search feature. Other shortcomings are listed as bugs and feature requests are welcomed.
You can subscribe to my posts at my page. Happy microblogging.
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What about Friend Feed? (http://friendfeed.com/about/) it’s not opensource, but it has a good features…
You’ve missed the point of the post then.
I just tried identi.ca, and registration and use is pretty much straight forward, just like the other microblogging services.
I can’t get my OpenID to work on the site, though, and I’ve absolutely no idea why. (It works here)
Still, it’s definitely worth to look at, especially because it’s open source.
I’d be there with you if the site didn’t have a few very annoying bugs. I’m having no luck whatsoever getting the Jabber Bot to send me a message to confirm…
You complain about Twitters bugginess, jeez, at least it works.
You know I’m an Open Source fan, you know I prefer such things, you know I’m on the same gravy train as you…
But seriously, take off the rose colored goggles and realize that this service has so far to go before it means anything.
Conceptually? Great idea, immensely helpful. But give credit where credit is due, identi.ca SUCKS (for now) and needs to get a lot better.
I’ll come back to it in a few months if it’s still in the news.
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