This is my official blog post to explain my reason for migrating from Twitter to Identi.ca. I have to say up front that both of these services do about the same job and I have very nearly the same list of folks I follow on both.
Let me just get these points out there and you may all comment as you wish. I hope that maybe you will consider that my dive into social networking has been quite telling to me in that I still hang with the same geeks in the same IRC channels and some of them have basically become my social network. I realize that maybe being on every service, and feeling an obligation to make different posts isn't the right way. I feel that this step will not reduce the number of people who will see my stuff or make suffer anyone who follows me on either network. This is also just one more step for me to try and reduce the number of social networking interfaces I have to deal with.
- Open source. I should put my money where my mouth is and promote the service that is open source.
- The commercialism of services that scrub Twitter and have profits from the words of the masses bothers me. You may feel different, and this is not a condemnation of you. My "boycott" will not make/break Twitter.
- Function: I enjoy that I get an email to direct reply to my posts on identi.ca
- Function: I enjoy that conversations are now visible in context.
- The community on identi.ca seems to be populated with folks who are more like me. Twitter has just gotten too big for my tastes. It is too mainstream and I probably won't hang out there.
With all that being said, I think it important in this internet age that I keep my presence and moniker present in the Twitter system therefore, I will be keeping the Twitter account, but all of my posts will be made to identi.ca where there is a "connect" feature that will forward posts to Twitter. The poor part is that I will never know about folks who @cafeninja me on Twitter. I would ask that if you don't have an identi.ca account, please DM me in twitter so that I receive an email. Again, I won't be logging into twitter directly anymore.
If my choice has managed to sever some sort of communication channel for any of you, please post a comment. I'm human and fallible, maybe there is something/someone I haven't considered.
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CafeNinja
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