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
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
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.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:22, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
so can it interoperate with irc if you want it to?
That feature is either complete, or coming. See Laconica's official Trac at http://laconi.ca/trac/ for bugs and features. I installed 0.6.4 from http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Laconica_0.6.4 without any modifications. I have half a mind though to tweak something or apply a patch from one of the most recent developlent builds, to see how the "source link" thing detects it and provides it's AGPL-obligated source download for all the users.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:27, Someone wrote (off list):
Do you need a Laconica acct before you sign up with the Kclug server?
Nope. You just fill in what nickname you want (you can change later) what password, an email address, and I think that's all that's required. It will send a confirmation email, but I was able to make my first post without clicking it's enclosed verification link, so it's either very lax, or I just didn't turn that part on. The signup page is http://laconica.kclug.com/main/register and it's really, really, quick compared to a lot of services. I suppose long term it will have to ask if you're 13 or older to comply with COPA, but the Laconica developers probably haven't thought of that yet.
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:40:45 pm Billy Crook wrote:
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.
So Laconica is just a marketting name for the XMPP pubsub standard... right??
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