On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:40, Joe Holloway jholloway7@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?
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