On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@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.