On Friday, October 22, 2010 10:41:22 pm Chris Little wrote: > I don't really see the point of identi.ca. It seems like Twitter, but > with fewer people and a bunch of unnecessary complication/clutter.
We have fewer people than logos, and some could argue unnecessary complication/clutter (though I don't see the clutter as I can use identi.ca with my mobile browser just fine without it being converted AFAIK). So I don't see how that's relevant. ;) But anyway, the point of identi.ca specifically is a public server running status net so everyone doesn't have to run their own, and to show off the whatever version of StatusNet (since the StatusNet company markets it to enterprises) without users having to create their own StatusNet communities on their free cloud-hosted service. And so people who use StatusNet have a common portal that is easy to subscribe to people too without having to know what server someone is on (more on that below) The pint of StatusNet is to have a free micro-blogging service for any and all to use. For instance, Mozilla has their own community place setup via StatusNet. And i can, if I desired (though I don't ;D ) follow the @firefoxmilestone feed from the one on identi.ca or the one on Mozilla's site all from my identi.ca account, And what's more if say CrossWire were to setup their own StatusNet install either on CrossWire servers or elsewhere people on identi.ca or 280.status.net or unlimited.status.net or wherever could subscribe to the posts without having to register for our site. (StatusNet hosts a number of other identi.ca based sites with different limits on character counts since it's configurable) > That said, since TwitterFeed supports StatusNet, I made an account that > will output the same content as our twitter feed: > http://identi.ca/theswordproject/ You can also set identi.ca to post to your twitter and Facebook accounts. I've got mine to do that (except I don't show posts with @'s in them on Facebook as they usually wouldn't make sense to my Facebook people) and StatusNet supports pulling in posts from a connected twitter account, though this is turned off on identi.ca because of traffic issues. Either way though, I subscribed to the identi.ca feed you mentioned and no posts have gone through to it. I just did a search in Choqok for theswordproject and only got my post from months ago (161 days) commenting that there should be sword and Xiphos identi.ca accounts, I further searched for posts from @theswordproject and got no results. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
