twhirl adds support for identi.ca, but stops halfway
Posted on | July 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
don’t get me wrong, it’s great that twhirl added support for identi.ca in their latest release pushed out tonight. at least it will make me use identi.ca more often. however twhirl missed an important point. which is: identi.ca ain’t a Twitter-clone, it’s a distributed Twitter-clone! so it just doesn’t make sense you can’t add any other laconica-servers than identi.ca to the twhirl client (I’ve made this amateurish mockup below, to make my point 
). but still, kudos to Marco Kaiser & seesmic, I’m pretty sure this will get ironed out rather soon…
update: having identi.ca in twhirl for few hours makes it so clear, that this should be an open, interoperable service…after a while you just forget weither you’re using Twitter or identi.ca…
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 8:39 am
So does it make sense to use identi.ca at all? Or is it just yet another service that adds a lot of redundancy?
July 22nd, 2008 @ 10:09 am
I’ld say redundancy is a good thing. after all, we aren’t using just one email-provider, right?
July 27th, 2008 @ 3:05 am
Thanks for the info.