Comments on: Why I use Identi.ca and you should too

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:38:24 +0000

With utter disappointment I cannot watch the video posted by T2A, apparently my country doesn’t allow it due to copyright laws.!?!?

Anyhow, totally agree with T2A’ point. I did have a myspace account for music, I got a facebook account but every now and then I think of deleting it, as I speak to my “friends” via phone or God-forbid, meeting up. I love the internet of expressing ways, ideas and views, learning about what’s going on in the world but I can’t see the point of twitter, but I was interested to see what identi.ca was, initially I thought it might be to do with identiti mountain bike frames, strange but true. Still its interesting none the less.

By: ThoCos

ThoCos — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:16:42 +0000

Hi. I recently (today, in fact) discovered Identi.ca while exploring some of the features of Ubuntu 10.04.

I normally use Windows XP but have been learning Ruby programming and it seems Linux is the preferred platform for Ruby and related stuff like Rails. So I’ve got VirtualBox running Ubuntu as a guest OS on WinXP. Anyway, I tried the chat software in Ubuntu and rather than use my Google Talk account I decided to play safe and try a different chat service… I chose Jabber and signed up.

The Jabber site mentioned Idendti.ca and that’s brings me back to your blog post. I’m a relative newcomer to Twitter (September 2009) and social web in general. Your post re Identi.ca dates from March 2009. Have your views remained the same in the 15 months since writing the post, Does Indetica still win over Twitter, given that Twitter has added several new features and enhancements?

I’d be really interested in an update on this post, if you could do one.

Thanks.
–Thomas C.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:16:42 +0000

I like this article. I also decide to switch from Twitter to Identica reaching a broader audience. Now I am having a problem on transfer old twitter post to identica. I had been search on the net. I still could not find a way to do it. Do you know how to do it?

By: Cara Swann

Cara Swann — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:17:24 +0000

Just found your blog this morning, interesting. Thanks so much for the twit-like app info; I immediately switched to it. I only use Twitter for brief updates (from web) at my blog, not social networking/communication and think Identica will be perfect for that. Additionally, I like being able to move my data elsewhere unlike Twitter.

By: Irina

Irina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:05:26 +0000

“Some people you may end up finding and wanting to talk with don’t use Twitter at all; they’re only on Identica.”

Yes, exactly. Also. free-as-in-freedom. And not at risk of being bought up by Google. I’m starting to forget to check my Twitter feed as well (need to look into a multifunctional client)– probably a good sign.

By: W. J. Bottomtooth

W. J. Bottomtooth — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:07:18 +0000

“Corpus of tweets.” You owe me a new keyboard, I just spat coffee all over it.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:35:44 +0000

Twitter is good for real-time updates of any sort of event, really. I found it really useful at LibrePlanet over the weekend. Sunday had a 3-track conference layout, so for each talk I heard, I was missing two others. Luckily, some of the people in those other talks were tweeting the event to the !LibrePlanet group on Identica, so I was able to follow along with at least the main points.

Regarding that Alt Text column, I hate what he hates about Twitter too. But people don’t seem to use it for “What mundane activity am I doing right now” anymore (or if they still do, I tend not to follow them). The service has evolved. For the most part, the things that people are saying are interesting.

By: arensb

arensb — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:41:04 +0000

T2A`:
Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) has used Twitter to good effect recently, giving real-time updates when there was a risk that the International Space Station might be hit by a rock. If you’re interested in that kind of rather specialized news, it’s good. I’ll probably subscribe to some political Twitter feeds next election night.

For interpersonal communication, on the other hand, I’m with you.

You might also enjoy LoreSjöberg’s Alt Text column about Twitter.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:01:56 +0000

Explain to me the point of Twitter. I don’t understand it, never have, and probably never will. It fits no niche on its own; many other applications do what it does better.

If you’re friends with someone, you know what’s going on with them already.

If you’re not friends with them you wouldn’t pay attention or care about their life in any other way, so why do so with Twitter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w&fmt=18