I’m fully, 100% in support of all efforts to make microblogging federated.

If you’re unfamiliar with federation, my non-technical explanation: Remember back in the days of AOL where you could only send messages to other AOL members? That’s like Twitter/Plurk/Jaiku today. A silo.

A federated system, like Laconi.ca/Identi.ca, means you can seamlessly subscribe/send messages to people on other platforms, like you can send/receive email with people on domains different from your own.

I’m running the “Oh, Identi.ca!” blog and intend to do what I can to help them grow and stabilize. However, in the interim, I don’t expect people to leave Twitter for an admittedly buggy system with no direct messages or easy friend import tool. So, I’m going to be on both Twitter and Identi.ca (not bridging - unique messages on both) until Identi.ca is ready for prom.

I encourage you to signup for Identi.ca and follow me over there, too.

I’m not usually one to hold back. I made an exception these last few months for Twitter.

Tonight, none of my RSS feeds work for Twitter. Alone, not such a huge deal. After all the other shit they’ve expected me to put up with, and with news that TweetStats no longer works because they pretty much couldn’t be bothered, I’m pissed off, and I’m sick of saying silent on the matter.

My rant over on the Oh, Twitter blog, which is hereby shut down until further notice.