Twitter

[David Nicol]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

so can it interoperate with irc if you want it to?


> 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 might not, but millions of happy users of Facebook and other walled
garden initiatives seem thrilled enough.


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