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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by apgwoz on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @04:34PM (#423994)
But, people _could_ adopt http://identi.ca, and help make laconi.ca a better distributed platform and then transition to it. This isn't bound to happen though, but it _could_.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by ambition on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @09:14PM (#424352)
To the extent that any "more open than twitter!" competitor begins to gain adoption, twitter can simply open up a little bit to kill it.

Knowing this, why would anyone put a big financial and infrastructure commitment into a more-open twitter clone?

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by apgwoz on Thursday January 08, 2009 @07:41AM (#424812)
But, if Twitter opens up a bit we all win! Ultimately, laconi.ca is attempting to be a distributed, open Twitter. Any more openness in Twitter will help make that happen, because laconi.ca can take advantage of new API methods to build abstractions for it's own distributed service protocol.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by JulianMorrison on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:41AM (#424727)
laconi.ca is OSS and can't be killed. All it needs is volunteers and users, and a turn to the dark side by Twitter would supply them. As such it makes a nice "sword of Damocles".
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