a year later and we're still just seeing the obviousness of laconi.ca - Chris Heath

I downloaded laconi.ca and got one up for my state at http://twitterok.com as soon as I heard about it. - Patrick Allmond

Just wish I could get more of my friends to use it. None of that fail-whale crap so far. - Eddie G

Sadly, I never visit my identi.ca account; everyone I know is on Twitter pretty much and without a community, it's not very useful :( - Travis B. Hartwell

Consider setting up a laconi.ca site for your state and start pushing people to it. I know it seems silly but it can come in handy when twitter is down. - Patrick Allmond

7billlion tweets a year - 2trillion SMS messages a year. "tweets" will take over for short messages. No way twitter is gonna handle that by themselves. the federated sites will develop - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Highly likely, given issues recent DOS attack had on twitter AND Laconi.ca offers far more than twitter! - peterjabraham

There is a massive need for this... it really is a must that they (or someone like them) succeed in creating a federated microblogging platform. Remember how important the IRC was for the internet in the early days? Then instant messaging took off and now microblogging is the next technology that will change the use cases people have for their internet connected devices. - Charles