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As mentioned in the article, all of these services use the OStatus protocol for interoperability.

It's pretty great stuff -- I have a StatusNet instance on my website, and people can follow me from other StatusNet instances, I can follow them; it really is decentralized Twitter.

Our goal is not to compete with identi.ca, but join them in promoting OStatus as an open alternative to Twitter that encourages a thriving developer community to build new and exciting apps and services without fear.

Precisely what I was going to post. Both Identi.ca and rStat.us need a compelling reason to switch. Either doing twitter better, or something you can't do on twitter.

'Because Twitter is mean' doesn't pull many users.