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I know many of you are using Twitter, and I know many more of you are using it. Well, you may or may not have heard of laconi.ca. Laconi.ca is an open source micro-blogging platform. For you non-technical people, it's basically a Twitter alternative, but different. Here is an episode of the FLOSS weekly podcast that contains an interview the the creator of Laconi.ca, so you can learn more about it.
The difference between Laconi.ca and Twitter is the same as the difference between AIM and Jabber. With Twitter or AIM there is one server that everyone connects to. All communications go through that server. With Jabber or Laconi.ca there are many different servers. Every group runs their own server, but you can still communicate between servers through federation.
Think about it like an office phone system. Imagine if we didn't have office phone systems. Every desk in every office would need its own phone number, and its own full connection to the phone company. That's crazy. Instead, offices have their own internal phone systems, so internal calls are handled internally. Then they just have a few lines that go to the outside world, so you can still call anybody in the world.
So even though identi.ca is the biggest laconi.ca server, there are many others, like the TWiT Army server and the http://laconica.frontrowcrew.com/ server. And even if people are on different servers, they can still follow each other. So the TwiT people are closer to each other, but they aren't walled off from the identi.ca people.
Yeah, you heard right. Everybody in the pool. Well, the beta pool. The server is up and working, but it's not 100% yet. I'm still trying to get the Jabber/XMPP support to work. I'm also definitely going to change the name of it. Let's all try to come up with a better name for it. The best we could come up with was knights.frontrowcrew.com. We can do better than that. So think of this server like the Death Star from Return of the Jedi. It's not complete, but it's fully operational. Just one more tool for us to build community.
Oh yeah, and because this is open source, I'm going to be modding it to all hell. An open source platform like this is going to add features very very quickly. Twitter, meanwhile, keeps having to disable features because they can't handle the load because of their busted architecture. Twitter is so done.
The difference between Laconi.ca and Twitter is the same as the difference between AIM and Jabber. With Twitter or AIM there is one server that everyone connects to. All communications go through that server. With Jabber or Laconi.ca there are many different servers. Every group runs their own server, but you can still communicate between servers through federation.
Think about it like an office phone system. Imagine if we didn't have office phone systems. Every desk in every office would need its own phone number, and its own full connection to the phone company. That's crazy. Instead, offices have their own internal phone systems, so internal calls are handled internally. Then they just have a few lines that go to the outside world, so you can still call anybody in the world.
So even though identi.ca is the biggest laconi.ca server, there are many others, like the TWiT Army server and the http://laconica.frontrowcrew.com/ server. And even if people are on different servers, they can still follow each other. So the TwiT people are closer to each other, but they aren't walled off from the identi.ca people.
Yeah, you heard right. Everybody in the pool. Well, the beta pool. The server is up and working, but it's not 100% yet. I'm still trying to get the Jabber/XMPP support to work. I'm also definitely going to change the name of it. Let's all try to come up with a better name for it. The best we could come up with was knights.frontrowcrew.com. We can do better than that. So think of this server like the Death Star from Return of the Jedi. It's not complete, but it's fully operational. Just one more tool for us to build community.
Oh yeah, and because this is open source, I'm going to be modding it to all hell. An open source platform like this is going to add features very very quickly. Twitter, meanwhile, keeps having to disable features because they can't handle the load because of their busted architecture. Twitter is so done.
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Don't worry, though. OpenID is not a requirement to use Laconi.ca. It's just a supported feature. If you want, you can just make a normal username and password like any other website.
I expect the same thing to happen as laconi.ca will replace Twitter. At first most people won't switch because they don't see the difference. To them, it's just chatting. But eventually, because laconi.ca is open, people who do use it will build things on top of it. Slowly it will win. It will win more quickly if more people jump to it. Leo Laporte helped a lot by setting up a server, so I'll do the same.
downin.frontrowcrew.com?
Are you going to put up a link somewhere? WTF?
brevis.frontrowcrew.com to sound erudite,
hoi-polloi.frontrowcrew.com to sound even more so,
tldr.frontrowcrew.com to be ironic,
hottub.frontrowcrew.com to keep the pool analogy?
Giantmecha?
I also like hottub.
duco.frontrowcrew.com (as in the Latin word "I speak, I say")
sophia.frontrowcrew.com (as in the Ancient Greek word for "wisdom")
I could come up with many more Latin/ Ancient Greek "puns", since I'm just doing my homework for both courses. ^^
yup.frontrowcrew.com
warmtoday.frontrowcrew.com
tonightwetalkabout.frontrowcrew.com
mrperiodsgonnakickyourassifyoudonttypeproperenglishtoandfromthisserver.frontrowcrew.com
Overall, I like all of luke's submissions.
Edit: butidigress.frontrowcew.com ^_~
From what I can gather you can also add RSS feeds to Laconi.ca. Will this be possible in the future on the FRC server?