Twitter’s Developer Hostility and What You Can Do to Help

[olivercameron]

http://taptivate.com/blog/twitters-developer-hostility-and-what-you-can-do-to-help

[michaelchisari]

Important to mention StatusNet and Identi.ca, the open source, decentralized Twitter alternatives.

http://status.net/

http://identi.ca

[alanh → michaelchisari]

Considering that I personally enjoyed Twitter more when it was “just us nerds,” perhaps these services don’t absolutely need to “catch on” or “take over” to be quite valuable to us in much the same way HN is, despite being much less popular than e.g. Reddit.

[michaelchisari → alanh]

Because statusnet is a software, not a service, it doesn't really play by the same rules. You can have one site running it that appeals to more niche demographics (like techies and nerds) and one that has more broad appeal.

[alanh → michaelchisari]

Hmm, can you expound on that and clarify the distinction as it applies to StatusNet?

[kgo]

So the plan is:

1) Keep on using twitter as much as ever.

2) Shift the support burden from twitter to companies that twitter would prefer to see go out of business.

?