identi.ca = open-source savior

[shanepardue]

Thank goodness someone is here to save us from the outages and spam of Twitter! Identi.ca is an open-source micro-blogging platform that is poised to be a Twitter-killer (hopefully) and I'm pretty excited about it. Here are some of the features they hope to implement soon.

* SMS updates and notifications
* A Twitter-compatible API
* More AJAX-y interface
* Maps
* Cross-post to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
* Pull messages from Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
* Facebook integration
* Hashtags
* Image, video, audio notices
* Automatic url-shortening
* Multilingual interface (using Gettext)


My username is HeadlessHorseman, please share your usernames and help get this project the attention it deserves!

[WickerMan]

I'm Wicks on there

[ice60]

i was reading about this the other day, the reason it's supposed to be better then twitter is something to do with the server hosting, it shouldn't fall down like twitter does.

i've never used any of those micro-blogging sites though and don't think i'll ever sign up. i couldn't care less what anyone is doing, and don't want anyone to know what i'm doing either lol. the internet is full of egomaniacs, it makes me cringe!!! or maybe i'm missing the point or something

[asgawer]

So is Gwibber a good choice of client?

[shanepardue]

So is Gwibber a good choice of client?

How do you install it? Their Launchpad site doesn't show any downloads, but I've heard of people using it.

[asgawer]

I followed http://linuxbasement.com/content/ins...r-ubuntu-hardy. It installed in /main instead of /gwibber, but the client itself seems to be working.

[atoc]

gregnotcraig (same id on twitter/jaiku/bkite). I've been an identican from damn near the very beginning

[atoc]

GWibber is awesome. VERY customizable.

to install it -
install bzr from the repos.
Also make sure these are installed

• python (2.5)
• python-dbus (0.80.2)
• python-gtk2 (2.10.4)
• python-gconf (2.18.0)
• python-notify (0.1.1)
• python-simplejson (1.7.3)

In my case the only thing I had to install was python-simplejson. The rest were already installed.

run this at the command line:

bzr branch lp:gwibber

Follow the instructions in the install doc in the gwibber folder.

I didn't bother installing it. I just run it from my home folder.

[atoc]

Features identi.ca has already implemented, thanks to contributors (all within weeks, if not days of it being requested or someone saying, "I'll take care of that"):
SMS
Hashtags
Replies
Twitter compatible API.

[DeadSuperHero]

Yeah, identi.ca is pretty swell.

I saw some pretty neat FOSS alternatives to things like Myspace today, though:

http://elgg.org/

Dolphin looks like a full-on Myspace alternative, though.

http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

Both are under the GPL.

There honestly needs to be an official FOSS social network. That would rock my socks.

Edit: Oh yeah, by the way: I'm lastguyonearth on both identi.ca and Twitter.