identi.ca is just a site, a red herring as I explained in the other twitter thread of the day. It runs off the StatusNet platform, a software package in the way wordpress is (as opposed to wordpress.com, a site.)
Even more important is the OStatus protocol, which if adopted, would allow decentralization and federation with other sites that speak the same protocol.
Even more important is the OStatus protocol, which if adopted, would allow decentralization and federation with other sites that speak the same protocol.