Adam CroomLast, the social nature of Twitter itself has a steeper learning curve than is often acknowledged. Adding a technical barrier on top of that? Why? That's also to say I'm still here because I'm curious and intrigued by the conversation. But I will likely not be "tweet"ing here. Also all of my opinions are subject to change at any moment.
Eugen Rochko@acroom I'm not sure there *is* a technical barrier here - for most people, the only different is that some people's usernames contain a domain part like an e-mail address. Not a difficult concept imo
@Gargron Thanks Eugen for the responses. I should clarify that I think there are technical barriers are to the self hosting/federation. If part of the differentiation is that it can be distributed, it would be great if it could be done by someone with very limited developer experience. Say, for instance, by my non-technical college students. Would you disagree?