Identi.ca sucks. No search. No replies. No track. At least that I can figure out. - Robert Scoble
no it's fucking stupid and can be made in 3 minutes or less - Matt Kaufman
More to the point - identi.ca: another FriendFeed plugin. - Bradley McSpinn
@scoble: Louis Gray's twins' can't walk, talk or use a computer (yet). Identi.ca is similarly young so please give a new product a chance. OpenSource and the federated architecture makes identi.ca very interesting. - Andy C
Andy... that's all true. But Matthew is working for CenterNetworks already (barring his getting two more write-ups after going AWOL today) - Louis Gray
Don't hold back, Matt. Tell us how you really feel. - Bradley McSpinn
It's too soon to tell. Right now it's just a distraction. - brian junyor
I got an account just to check it out. Right now, I'm not impressed until things are a bit less messy and, it integrates with a lot of other services (like Friend Feed). Twitter has "something" despite their issues. They've got things cornered right now. - Candace Holly
I couldn't even register the account on the machine at work and haven't been back since - LPH
distraction at best. needs more functionality (search in particular) - Cee Bee
Robert, it 'sucks,' but it still managed to get covered by a host of bloggers ... so they either have good PR or everybody's that desperate for a twitter killer. - David Adewumi
distraction, although seems to be as non-functional as twitter (at least with my first attempts. :( - thecolor
I wonder how many people who think it sucks are Windows/OS X users. Sounds snarky, but it's not. My point is this: In the commercial world, you release a product when (you think) it's completed; in the FOSS world, you release it early so that the community can contribute feedback, bug reports, rfe's, and code. Identi.ca is presumably doing the latter. - Joanmarie
socbut.com has search, replies are coming, we have tagging ... what more can u ask : - Jay Martinez
why be so harsh about a service that was released what, 36 hours ago? Let's see where they go with identi.ca I am optimistic. - ron k jeffries
it sucks, yet I know of at least a half-dozen instances of the software have been installed elsewhere. and they're starting to talk to each other. - l.m.orchard via twhirl
Sure. Robert it is starting. You know the ideas, implementation and OPEN specs behind it: xmpp OOB, oAuth, openmicroblogging new spec for federating and uses XRDS-Simple, OpenID... It will evolve, it is Open Source... so it should get bigger. And I agree @Joanmarie it is about sharing feedback, reporting bugs, etc... - Gustavo Munoz via twhirl
If you have bugs or features you want to be included use http://laconi.ca/PITS/HomePage that is the way to help open systems to evolve... or you can pick one of them and try to solve it, post your fix and ask for being a committer ... regular open source stuff - Gustavo Munoz via twhirl
It's NOTHING whatsoever like plurk. This is open source. that's a HUGE difference. Also, Plurk is a bunch of cool kid design with useless features. Very different entities. Does identi.ca have value? That's a whole other question. But please don't compare it with Plurk. They're both from Canada. That's the only connection. - melmcbride
don't compare it to plurk. plurk is more fun and invasive, it's more a game than an efficient way of creating streaming flow of communication like twitter and identi.ca do. i guess, if twitter isn't going to be acquired or supported by a big company asap, it could be replaced by identi.ca, which has the advantage of being opensource - Marco Frattola via twhirl
Identi.ca is going nowhere - it's not about the code. Anyone with chops can make this stuff. Twitter is here to stay. $20 million bank and Fred Wilson are enough reasons! - Sean Kelly
I don't think identi.ca is a killer, but twitter should better move their lazy bums - vruz
But unless twitter get fixed, we will have more of this. Japanese users are moving in great numbers to Wassr.com - Masatake E. Hori via feedalizr
Why doesnt FriendFeed share with other services? Instead of just gathering from other sources? - donclark
distraction. open-source doesn't automatically means great... - xavier vespa
I just can't see it being a TwitterKiller. - J.T Dabbagian
It isn't now. That doesn't mean it won't ever become one. Open source doesn't make it great, it just makes it easier for a community to make it great. I don't see Twitter giving its community that power. - Garrett Guillotte
