Twitter

[Billy Crook]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:40, Joe Holloway <jholloway7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to the mailing list.  Anyone else use Twitter?  I'm looking for some
> KC area Linux users to follow.  Perhaps kclug having its own Twitter account
> would make it easier to find others?
>
> http://twitter.com/jholloway7
>
> Take care

I'm sure some people here do use Twitter.  I don't.  I don't
particularly 'get' the microbloging thing, but I am planning to try
out Laconica.

Laconica is Twitter's Free Software replacement.  If you want it to be
just as easy as twitter, then go to http://identi.ca/ and sign up.
That's the "official" Laconica server.  Unlike twitter though,
Laconica is federated, AND Free Software under the AGPL 3.0.

This means you can run your own server if you want, and your data is
portable.  Your online 'life' isn't held captive to any one company.
You wouldn't sign up for an email account only to be told you could
only send mail to other people on the same server, would you?

I just set up a Laconica server for KCLUG.
Visit http://laconica.kclug.com
Sign up at http://laconica.kclug.com/main/register

If I see more than a couple dry "hello world" posts, I'll federate it
so you can subscribe to, and be subscribed from other domains.  Let me
know what you think.

-Billy