It's a lot easier if you have an OpenID... I had my identi.ca account running in less than a minute because of it. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt, I've got one, luckily. - Veronica

Seems like Plurk to me — something I've joined but will most probably never use. - Vincent X

So the silly thing is that I needed to tell identi.ca to have my account follow yours, when it is obvious from the one-million other identical services we're both on that this has happened before... - DeWitt Clinton

I think I caught join-itis from Leo and Amber LOL - Harry Myhre

I'll second that. but I think the new one problem is that half the fun of these things is collecting friends, and once it's clear that people have gamed the system, and all of the delayed social awkwardnesses of the big internet become apparent... everyone wants to move on. don't blame them. maybe a more fragmented space will make twitter work better ;) - tycho garen

I registered my moniker but don't have the wherewithall to do more than that right now - Adrienne Van Houten

Tycho, how has anyone "gamed" the system? - Veronica

Bright shiny new app FATIGUE anyone???? - Susan Beebe

One has to draw the line somewhere with all of these new services to join. Mine is Friendfeed. There has to be something really compelling about any new service for me to join now. - Chris Rodgers

We're the social networking lemmings.... - Jonathon

Chris - excellent point... ok so what is *THE* killer app criteria that makes you LOOK? i.e. what is that "something really compelling" look like to you? - Susan Beebe

I'm not joining indenti.ca. Got a post up on Mashable about it. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

maybe I'm missing something, but I didn't really see anything at identi.ca to make me want to use it again. What's the big woof? - Harry Myhre

Harry: the "big woof" is the *RUSH* by early adopters to add more followers than YOU or I have on a bright new shiny app so they look cooler than you? Zzzzzzzz - Susan Beebe

Actually Susan, it's not about being cooler than anyone (but wow, glad you think so highly of me). It's part of my job to know how these things work. Also, I tend to join early to secure my name so it's not abused, which has happened in the past. - Veronica

Veronica you're cool. - Johnny Worthington

Yeah true, by joining early , I always get to use elranchero ! - Harry Myhre

People are partyin' like it's 1999 on identi.ca LOL jeez - Harry Myhre

BTW, not feelin' it. - Veronica

Likely sign up, add the usual friends, play with a day or so and come running back to the FF/Twitter mega-combo. - Vince DeGeorge

Me neither Veronica...sorta basic huh? - Susan Beebe

I just joined the new thing too. identi.ca/jrmehle - Jared Mehle

never had an OpenID until this! Never could figure out how to get one. yahoo has made it easy now! - Harry Myhre

This might be a dumb question (at 1 AM) but why aren't people migrating to Pownce? - Charlie Anzman

Sadly, my Pownce page won't work anymore. It's a known issue with them, I guess. :( - Veronica

Daniel Burka actually mentioned recently that the Pownce issues unfortunately most affect users with a large number of friends on their account, but that it will be improving in the coming weeks. - Vincent X

I'm not joining...until somebody hits 5,000 subscribers. On plurk, all the biggies (leo, scoble, veronica) only have 1,000 friends/fans each. I wonder if Loic will create his own twitter service add-on to bundle w/ seesmic and twhirl? - Pokai

Hmmm, Pokai, you may be onto something - a service is not worth joining until XXX has X,XXX followers. That just may work. I like it! - Vince DeGeorge

That's a bummer on Pownce. Didn't really go there a lot but liked it. Thought they did a really good job with the UI. - Charlie Anzman

yeah i agree on pownce. Signed up, looked at it. Shrugged. Never used it! Digg is cool though. - Harry Myhre

I find it kinda easy with Ping... I barely realize where I am posting to, I just put out the content - Chacha102

I checked pownce...kevin has 15,000 fans, then leo 4,500, veronica 5,000, Scoble 3,600 so there is mass at pownce, but kevin has said that pownce is more for sharing media than status/thoughts... - Pokai