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The fact that middle-click-to-open-in-new-tab doesn't work anymore in the Twitter web client makes identi.ca at least less crappy to my tastes.

Mainly because it's open, but also because it seems to be more stable than twitter and because I find the twitter web UI horrible (not that the identi.ca web UI is nice, but it's still better).

Generally I almost only use free software, and prefer open-platforms whenever possible. I actually can't remember the last time I used non-free software.

Freedom is killer feature.

For people who consider FOSS a killer feature.

By rights it should be, but it's demonstrably not. Sadly the industry is plagued with a critical mass of people (though I question whether they are actually still members of our species) who don't object to being told how they may use their tools.