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If identica is a relevant comparable, it will be tough for them to get mainstream momentum, but their site will be useful for a certain type of person, which could actually give it an 'identity' and make it at least useful in the nerd niche.

Cute that they got the touch / grep / mount / fsck fsck fsck joke in there on the chalk board.

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I think the difference is that Identica hasn't found any terribly rich veins of Twitter discontent to tap into, whereas Diaspora is getting NY Times publicity just because Facebook has pissed so many people off with their privacy issues. And this despite the fact that Diaspora doesn't even exist yet.

It's very remarkable, that; rock-band-like publicity for something that does not yet exist.

identica has some serious design and ux issues. I don't think it's safe to use it as a benchmark.

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