Identi.ca

Identi.ca is similar to social networking sites like Facebook and Google+, allowing unlimited length status updates, rich text, and images. The Activity Streams protocol supports many kinds of activities such as games. OpenFarmGame is a prototype application for an Activity Streams-based game. Previous features from its StatusNet version such as hashtags, groups, and global search are not supported.

The service received more than 8,000 registrations and 19,000 updates within the first 24 hours of publicly launching on July 2, 2008,{{cite web|url=http://identi.ca/notice/19345 |publisher=identi.ca |access-date=2008-07-03 |title=identi.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708073815/http://identi.ca/notice/19345 |archive-date=July 8, 2008 }} and reached its 1,000,000th notice on November 4, 2008.[http://identi.ca/notice/1000000 identi.ca] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106143933/http://identi.ca/notice/1000000 |date=2008-11-06 }}{{cite web|url=http://status.net/2012/07/03/four-more-years|title=FOUR MORE YEARS|author=Evan Prodromou|date=3 Jul 2012|access-date=8 Aug 2013|publisher=status.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903023227/http://status.net/2012/07/03/four-more-years|archive-date=2013-09-03}} In January 2009, identi.ca received investment funds from venture capital group Montreal Start Up.{{cite web|last=Croll|first=Alastair|title=Identi.ca Gets Funding to Make Open-source Twitter Variant|date=15 January 2009|url=http://gigaom.com/2009/01/14/identica-gets-funding-to-make-open-source-twitter-variant/|publisher=GigaOM|access-date=17 August 2012|archive-date=25 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225025330/https://gigaom.com/2009/01/14/identica-gets-funding-to-make-open-source-twitter-variant/|url-status=dead}}

On March 30, 2009, Control Yourself (since renamed StatusNet Inc) announced that Identi.ca was to become part of a hosted microblogging service called status.net to be launched in May 2009. Status.net offers individual microblogs under a subdomain to be chosen by the customer. Identi.ca will remain a free service. All notices will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default, but paying customers will be free to choose a different license.{{cite web |url=http://controlyourself.ca/2009/03/30/statusnet-coming-soon/ |title=status.net coming soon |publisher=controlyourself.ca |date=March 30, 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401164906/http://controlyourself.ca/2009/03/30/statusnet-coming-soon/ |archive-date=April 1, 2009 }}

Formerly based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OStatus specification (and earlier based on the OpenMicroBlogging specification), Identi.ca allowed users to send text updates (known as "notices") up to 140 characters long. While similar to Twitter in both concept and operation, Identi.ca/StatusNet provided many features not currently implemented by Twitter, including XMPP support and personal tag clouds. In addition, Identi.ca/StatusNet allowed free export and exchange of personal and "friend" data based on the FOAF standard; therefore, notices could be fed into a Twitter account or other service, and also ported in to a private system similar to Yammer.

Developer Evan Prodromou chose to change the site to the pump.io software platform in development, because pump.io offers more features making it technically more advanced.{{cite web | url=https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/ | title=StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io | publisher=LWN.net | date=March 27, 2013 | access-date=2013-05-07 | author=Nathan Willis}}{{cite web | url=https://opensource.com/life/13/7/pump-io | title=pump.io: the decentralized social network that's really fun | publisher=opensource.com | date=July 15, 2013 | access-date=2013-07-15 | author=Bryan Behrenshausen}}

Registration on Identi.ca was closed in December 2012 in preparation for the switch to pump.io software (the popularity of Identi.ca and "official" Status.net hosting were considered a hindrance to the creation of a federated social network). The conversion was completed on 12 July 2013.

The 140 character per post limit was removed (in StatusNet, it was a setting, not an inherent limitation); now the blog posts can contain formatting and images. Groups,{{cite web|url=https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/issues/299|title=Groups|website=GitHub|access-date=2013-09-25}} hashtags,{{cite web|url=https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/issues/245|title=Automatically link hash tags|website=GitHub|access-date=2013-09-25}} and a page listing popular posts{{cite web|url=https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/issues/655|title=Popular|website=GitHub|access-date=2013-09-25}} are not yet implemented in pump.io.{{cite web |title=pump.io: the decentralized social network that's really fun {{!}} Opensource.com |url=https://opensource.com/life/13/7/pump-io |website=opensource.com |language=en}}

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