#laconica

"You should now have an operational laconica instance using the default template. The webserver is apache2. Jabber provided by ejabberd and electronic mail courtesy of sendmail. There is also a script provided that will back up your database to s3."

"Personally I'm thrilled by the idea and encouraged by its execution so far, and have been poking cautiously at Laconica for the past couple of weeks, hoping to contribute in whatever way I can. Here's a prototype badge, based on Laconica's RSS feeds and

"It’s not that I want to see Twitter die, or go away, or fail… and I don’t just want identi.ca to replace Twitter. That’s not the idea. "

"What we need is for Microblogging to shift from being a closed world owned by one company to an open, standards based medium that does not risk dying if a single entity dies, either technically or financially."