About 1 year ago, I switched to identi.ca, an open-source microblogging service. Most of the open source folks moved from Twitter to identi.ca, it had (and still has) a quite some advantages over Twitter. See this article for a comparison among these two services. There was not much to lose, I could still forward my tweets to Twitter. But after one year I've pretty much had it with this service. There are quite some nice people out there, but the service was getting on my nerves. What follows here is a rant, you've been warned.
I did a little comparison between Twitter and identi.ca, two micro-blogging sites available today. The list is pretty random and may contain errors, or may miss some items. And both sites are introducing and ditching features which could invalidate the list below. But feel free to let me know if something needs to be changed (I'm @bram85 on identi.ca and Twitter), or use the comment section below.
| identi.ca | ||
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| Open source |  |
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| Groups | |
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| Tags | |
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| OpenID | |
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| Jabber (XMPP)* | |
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| Notices to SMS** | |
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| Autosubscribe followers | |
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| @Replies filtering | |
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| Update protection | |
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| Theming | |
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| Mobile interface | |
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| Non-english interface*** | |
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| RSS feeds | |
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| ATOM feeds | |
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| FOAF feeds | |
* Regarding Jabber support, Twitter used to have this, but silently ditched it.
** Differs from country to country. It appears that the range of Twitter is more limited than identi.ca's.
*** Twitter offers only one additional language besides English, Japanese. Identi.ca offers a wide range of languages.
