Stephen Michael KellatSomeone forked pumpio? WHY? https://activity.distopico.info/distopico/image/crGO5c0gQYO1cvMTt5ig1g
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]@kat @alpacaherder From the link, I understand the reasoning, but transferring E14N's servers got caught up in Evan's work schedule, so most of the network nodes have been offline for over a year. At this point, forking seems like an exercise in futility.
Hallå Kitteh@lnxw48a1 @kat @alpacaherder I don't get the reasoning "people refer to Evan too much in discussions".
It's not because Evan has final say in anything, he has handed over the project. It's just that maybe some of the code needs his feedback because it's not clearly documented or tested. A fork won't resolve that, on the contrary it will just make communication and cooperation more difficult.
It's not because Evan has final say in anything, he has handed over the project. It's just that maybe some of the code needs his feedback because it's not clearly documented or tested. A fork won't resolve that, on the contrary it will just make communication and cooperation more difficult.
@alpacaherder @clacke @kat Pownce (did it best, but was acquihired), Jaiku (better than Twitter, but Google cut off its resources and let it wither), and I'm sure there were others that I did not try. I think Plurk came along later.
@lnxw48a1 @kat @alpacaherder I found some posts from 2008 and the hot names seem to have been Pownce, Jaiku, Plurk, Twitter, FriendFeed and "identi.ca" (federation is hard to grasp!). Also tumblr, if one includes that in microblogging.
Here's one:
http://conniebensen.com/2008/07/04/twitter-friendfeed-jaiku-pownce-plurk-identica/
Wow, didn't know Bambuser existed already back in 2008:
https://bambuser.blogspot.com/2008/09/integration-with-friendfeed-identica.html
I see surprisingly little talk of Yammer, which launched in 2008, but maybe is wasn't well-known until 2009. I remember considering it the greatest threat to StatusNet, which wasn't a name for GS until 2009.
I happened upon the point in history where @forteller entered the Fediverse for the first time. :-)
https://pthree.org/2008/07/02/identica/
Here's one:
http://conniebensen.com/2008/07/04/twitter-friendfeed-jaiku-pownce-plurk-identica/
Wow, didn't know Bambuser existed already back in 2008:
https://bambuser.blogspot.com/2008/09/integration-with-friendfeed-identica.html
I see surprisingly little talk of Yammer, which launched in 2008, but maybe is wasn't well-known until 2009. I remember considering it the greatest threat to StatusNet, which wasn't a name for GS until 2009.
I happened upon the point in history where @forteller entered the Fediverse for the first time. :-)
https://pthree.org/2008/07/02/identica/
March 2009:
> With services such as Qaiku, Twitbear, Bloggy and others being created it shows that the vacuum created by Jaiku’s downtime has created a new market for microblogging.
https://social.heldscal.la/url/906536
> With services such as Qaiku, Twitbear, Bloggy and others being created it shows that the vacuum created by Jaiku’s downtime has created a new market for microblogging.
https://social.heldscal.la/url/906536
Qaiku.com – YAJC (Yet Another Jaiku Clone) | ArcticStartup
Eero Holmila, CEO of Rohea showed me Qaiku.com a few weeks back when it was still in closed beta. Now it seems to have opened up to open beta and is accepting registrations. With services such as Qaiku, Twitbear, Bloggy and others being created it shows that the vacuum created by Jaiku's downtime has created a new market for microblogging. The downside for the community of course is that the whole market is now very fragmented and thus the value in each new service is lower to the individual from the network point of view. Nevertheless, let's have a look at Qaiku.com - it's one of the best clones of Jaiku out there, I must say. It's still got some issues however. For example, you have to know Finnish to change the language at the front page to English, it's hidden there in the drop down menu. Once you sign after registration it's very similar to the Jaiku user interface. In addition to taking the best of Jaiku, there are small new improvements which in my opinion are very welcome. One