Identi.ca

Identi.ca (launched 2008) is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. It uses the software StatusNet (licence: Affero GPLv3+).

Some advantages to use identi.ca are:

* all notices are published with Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
* better view of replies (example: identi.ca, click hell at twitter: [1])
* one can forward messages also to twitter
* FOAF (Friend of a friend) support: a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. example: [2]
* when you install your own StatusNet instance you have control over your data (e.g. you decide with whom to share or not, ...) + can connect with other network systems (e.g. twitter, ...) via federation
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## Wikiversity related info on identi.ca[edit | edit source]

* tag #wikiversity: you can generate these when you add in your message #wikiversity
* group !wikiversity: you can post here when you add in your message !wikiversity

## some Wikiversity users who use identi.ca[edit | edit source]

(alphabetical)

* Cary Bass
* Leigh Blackall
* Laura Hale
* Pieter Jansegers
* Samuel Klein
* Cormac Lawler
* James Neill
* Nils Simon
* Erkan Yilmaz

* add yourself

## See also[edit | edit source]

* adding yourself
* Wikiversity:Twitter
* wikipedia: Comparison of micro-blogging services
* identi.ca help
* wiki of StatusNet
* Why Identi.ca (and Status.net) matter in a Twitter world