[FM Discuss] fm identica

[Ted Smith]

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:40 -0700, Jay Maechtlen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Take back your freedom and make an identica account. You can do
> > bi-directional bridging between identica and twitter, but I don't think
> > twitter supports groups.
> > 
> >   
> Hashtags in Twitter accomplish some of the 'group' function.
> 

Hashtags categorize messages, which yes, by virtue of
implementation, !-groups do on Statusnet. However, they don't (or
shouldn't, at least) broadcast messages, which is the real use case of a
group. If you were talking about your work on FM, you could categorize
your message with #fm, but if you needed to broadcast your dent, you'd
do that with !fm (which would also allow your message to show up in a
tag search of #fm since that's how Statusnet is implemented).

I have to confess I don't know much about the non-free network service
in question, since I value my freedom too highly to use non-free network
services, so if tagging on said NFNS works in some non-intuitive way, I
apologize.
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