identica's useful for Free Software community folks

Posted Sep 14, 2010 16:39 UTC (Tue) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048)
In reply to: identica's useful for Free Software community folks by bkuhn
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

I tried to follow you but the problem is that @bkuhn on Twitter is someone else (and I use Twitter). By following the other bkuhn, I do get to see messages my contacts address to you, but it doesn't really make sense to follow an unrelated person just for that reason, so I unfollowed him. Too bad the identi.ca/Twitter connection doesn't prevent duplicate user IDs...

identica's useful for Free Software community folks

Posted Sep 15, 2010 15:40 UTC (Wed) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642) [Link] (1 responses)

> Too bad the identi.ca/Twitter connection doesn't prevent duplicate user IDs...
The blame for this issue is 100% Twitter's fault. Twitter refuses to adhere to the Open Microblogging Protocol and therefore there is this username class. @bkuhn on Twitter is quite annoyed about this too, he's emailed me to complain. I've also explained to him that it's completely Twitter's fault and that he should complain to Twitter that they are refusing to collaborate with Open and Free communities. I'm sure the VC-backed Twitter won't care in the least. It's yet another reason why I boycott them.

identica's useful for Free Software community folks

Posted Sep 29, 2010 21:58 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

So twitter invented microblogging, somebody else came along later and copied them and declared their copy a "standard", twitter didn't notice, and this is somehow reprehensible.

I'm not following the logic here. I think identica would have to pass Facebook just to get their _attention_...