Everyone complains so much about Twitter but refuses to leave... Do people like to complain in general? - Mona Nomura

@Aaron: it reminds me of a chat room. a/s/l anyone? - Mona Nomura

"Ridiculously featureless." Well put. Not to mention it's really really slow. It's a good thing they have XMPP connectivity out of the box, since that's the only way it's remotely usable. - Albert Willis

its more like we flock to these other services to lay claim to our handles, or else you are like scoble and they get scooped up. - Andrea Baker

If identi.ca had a fail whale, we'd have already sighted it spout. Of course, it's really early ... - Chris Baskind

Gee. It was working fine a minute ago. ;-) - Leo Laporte

Had a look at identi.ca, but think friendfeed will be my new drug of choice - James Fridley

I kind of hate it already, and I just joined tonight. I'm sticking with Twitter/FF - Veronica

Anybody remember what Twitter looked like on it's first day live? - Ken Sheppardson

It is so horribly slow... - xero

Umm...I wouldn't say we're flocking there...just peeking in the window more like it. - Mack D. Male

On the bright side, setting up Laconica was pretty easy. But, yeah, I only really signed up there to save my name. - donato

yeah @veronica, FF is more full featured. Took me about a day to get used to it. - Harry Myhre

Well it is Canadian - Tris Hussey via twhirl

MASS MIGRATION!! I see over 1,000 unique users already in 1 day! dang this app is going viral fast!... already got an outage error... we need a "fail MOOSE" - Susan Beebe

I can't call them "tweets", and calling them "identi" is just weird - xero

Seriously, they're already moving servers apparently according to the head guy there once it finally calmed down. - Zach Flauaus

@Mona people complain but only for so long... remember - everybody left DOS years ago... - Harry Myhre

Zach: who's the "head guy" @ identi.ca ?? - Susan Beebe

i'm willing to test out any of these microblogging platforms to find one that consistently works - Chris

startups that experience exponential growth get slammed with new users... thus the performance hits on their servers = crawl - Susan Beebe

Not sure if he's the "head guy" but Evan Prodromou (evan here and on identi.ca) is certainly up the chain. I've seen him described as the author in other threads. - Ken Sheppardson

I'll stick with Twitter and Friend Feed for now. I've been to a few different places and it just doesn't feel right. Yeah, Twitter is down a lot, but I still like it. I also am liking FF too, because people can leave comments. - Molly

FriendFeed is MY killer app.. the rest are time sucks - Susan Beebe

Maple syrup works for me... - Mark Forman

FriendFeed is the definitive microblogging app for me. Twitter is just another FF plugin. - Antony Jepson

I signed in with openid (liked that), uploaded an avatar and made a post. But I don't know if I want to put any effort into subscribing to anyone. I mean the people I want to follow (subscribe to) are mostly hear or on FF. Maybe I am just being lazy. - Andrea Baker

The twitter clones all seem to have at least one defining thing going for them, but identi.ca is very plain. It seems like twitter with *less* features. - Patrick via twhirl

Apart from communities on twitter-clones tending to be much smaller than on twitter itself, if you make a straight up clone, you will probably end up with the same technical problems Twitter has. You'd have to change something quite radical on the architecture side of things. - Horst Gutmann

Ugh, I hope people don't start using it. Now that I've finally left Twitter, I'm pretty content with FriendFeed. - Dillon K. Hoops

@Antony Jepson Maybe FriendFeed is just another Twitter Plugin:) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter... - Igor Poltavskiy

Open Source rocks. Join now! :) http://identi.ca/scabr - Igor Poltavskiy

@Igor You have that backwards. ;) Personally I'm liking FriendFeed. It's like an open architecture FaceBook. The only things I'd change is a better mobile interface, the ability to SMS/IM in shares, and the ability to comment on/like comments. That's it. The feature I love the most is the Imaginary Friend feature. - Ivan via fftogo

Leo-friendfeed or Identi.ca? - Sohail Mamdani