Microblog with confidence

At the end of the dot com era in 2000/2001 many web based services either disappeared entirely or became paying only, often without much forewarning for their users.

Since the popular microblogging service Twitter seems to conspicuously lack a business model it might be that identi.ca is a more robust alternative, less likely to suffer from abrupt and ham-fisted attempts at monetizing the service. Since this is based upon the Affero GPL and creative commons licenses if one server goes down because a company goes bust another is likely to crop up soon afterwards to replace it.

Centralize, and you build in weakness.