I was innocently minding my own business today, when all of a sudden I stared getting notices about identi.ca on Twitter. Judging by the activity over there, it seems there was a mass migration today.
So far, it seems okay in terms of speed (but who knows what will happen once more users find it) and is fairly simple. It is missing SMS, an API, and a bunch of Twitter features, but more important is that Jabber works. To top the whole thing off is that the entire service is released under the AGPL and uses OpenID.
I’m willing to see how long it holds out. Who wants to help break it? I’m at http://identi.ca/jacob (horray for early-adoption usernames). Anyone else out there?
What about Jaiku? I switched from Twitter to Jaiku, and I’m not going back. Let me know if you need an invite.
Tiago: Jaiku looks nice, though the problem with it is that it is invite-only and is a little inactive. Google bought them out almost a year ago and they are just now working on a migration?
… though I’ll take an invite if you have one. jpeddicord at ubuntu dot com
I think the important thing about identi.ca that everybody (or at least mostbody) neglects to mention when talking about it, is that it is brand spanking new! Yes, there are missing features… but guess what? They’re coming.