I found this lengthy article on the subject:
https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/
I agree that ultimately, Identi.ca just felt like a Twitter clone. Although
it's free and federated, I didn't feel it reached it's potential because
there was only one site to sign up to. Start my own server? Not a
Hello there!
I'm a developer who's been doing a lot of work on my own fork of StatusNet,
https://freesocial.org/ (see http://www.ohloh.net/p/freesocial for dev-stuff)
As may have been pointed out, but deserves repetition, is that this is the
Status.net _service_ being migrated to that compa
GNU/consensus has more of a goal to discuss the foundations for a federated
infrastructure rather than necessarily producing its own software.
The statusnet software is still going to be kept under the same licence
(which, beyond the obvious reasons, is good because OStatus lets you interact
with identi.ca, friendica, etc. etc.) I federated (set up my own statusnet
instance that can talk to other OStatus networks like identi.ca :
Wasn't Diaspora supposed to be the poster child for truely open and
decentralized social networking under an Affero GPLv3 license? Did that even
get finished or is it considered a failure?
Curiously, that happened not much before the launching of GNU/consensus:
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7469
With your Google Chrome reference, the only real difference from the BSD
licensed Chromium version is that it includes MP4 and MP3 codecs, proprietary
Flash and PDF plugins, Google branding, and user tracking.
Functionality wise, the same version of Chromium works the same as Chrome.
There
tegskywalker writes:
> I recently read a story at …about how the owner of StatusNet is
> ceasing development of the software and that the existing Identi.ca
> accounts will be migrated over to their new platform, Pump.io.
Here is the official source. [1] One of the comments of an anonymous
user r
> the new software will be licensed under Apache 2.0.
It's a shame they are moving away from copyleft altogether. Technical
superiority is perhaps one of the largest reasons why people use free
software (sadly). Copyleft is pragmatic idealism - it means someone can't
just take free software
This story is a few years old, but may give some reasons as to why someone
would pick Apache over GPL:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10229817-16.html
With pump.io under a permissive license, it may as well be Twitter.
I'll just stay where I am.
Yup, with StatusNet being Affero GPLv3, the source code for any "competitive
advantage" changes or spying would have to be released back into the mainline
and therefore he (Evan) didn't do it. With his new platform, he can do
anything he wants with Pump.io (spying and proprietary code) and do
Until this message, I had been considering a move to identi.ca or maybe
adding it, but keeping twitter.
-Dave H.
On 12/28/2012 02:53 PM, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote:
What will you do when Identi.ca goes away? Are you going to use Pump.io
instead?
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