[NTLUG:Discuss] What a twit

[Ralph Green]

Howdy,
  You may be talking about my comments about twitter, among others.  I
am not bashing twitter.  But, identi.ca is open source and therefore, in
my mind more trustworthy.  So, I'd rather use it, and I know a lot of
other open source people feel the same way.  I don't know anything
particularly bad about twitter.  Since it is closed source and tied to
their servers, it just seems better to use the open source guys.  That
way, there is less chance of being locked into whatever decisions
twitter makes in the future.  At any point, we could take laconi.ca's
software and run our own server.  So, no bashing is intended.  But,
pushing for the open source alternative is OK, isn't it?  I even waited
for someone else to bring it up.  By getting over it, you mean we should
just all use identi.ca, right?
Good day,
Ralph

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 22:42 -0500, Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:25:19PM -0700, Dennis Kaptain wrote:
> > 
> > I don't get this thread. I use twitter all the time on my Fedora 11
> > laptop using Firefox 3.5b4 and earlier using Fedora 10 with Firefox.
> > I have never used it with any other browser so maybe I just don't
> > know what it is "supposed" to look like or how it's "supposed" to
> > behave. But it always works for me.
> 
> I have the same question.  I can't tell whether Twitter is being
> bashed because of alleged incompatibilities with FF, or because it's
> closed source.  If the latter, then we should all just get over it and
> move on.  If the former, then I might suggest checking for a borked FF
> install.
> 
>   --Brian