Comment on Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging ServiceComments−petervandijck15y"In order to follow someone from Identi.ca, just paste the ATOM feed from their profile into rStat.us."That's when it all falls down, of course. And you can't follow people on Twitter?−ddagradi15yIt's only an initial implementation. If you can't follow users between sites with a single click in the final version, we've failed.−petervandijck15yCool, looking forward to more iterations. Congrats on the launch!−generalk15yI can see this being replaced with something automated. As it stands it smacks of "hacker put a text input field to test functionality and it works." I mean, worst-case, they could screenscrape the user's page and pull the Atom URL that way.
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"In order to follow someone from Identi.ca, just paste the ATOM feed from their profile into rStat.us."
That's when it all falls down, of course. And you can't follow people on Twitter?
It's only an initial implementation. If you can't follow users between sites with a single click in the final version, we've failed.
Cool, looking forward to more iterations. Congrats on the launch!
I can see this being replaced with something automated. As it stands it smacks of "hacker put a text input field to test functionality and it works." I mean, worst-case, they could screenscrape the user's page and pull the Atom URL that way.