Tired of Twitter?
January 21st, 2009
I am. Every time I try to use their service it is always really slow and parts of it are not working. My solution: go over to Identi.ca and sign up with their service. It’s not as well known, but it’s an open source platform that spreads the user load over a number of servers. If you have a dedicated web server you can install your own instance of Identi.ca which you can then either limit access to or eventually will be able to link into the overall identi.ca network. Identi.ca is still early in development so it will only get better as more people use it and the developers improve it. Oh, and did I mention it supports OpenID? Well it does.
Tim Seymour lives in Washington, DC. He works as a Systems Administrator for 
