Exodus finds your Twitter friends on Identi.ca

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31 points·davidcoallier··4 comments

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what exactly this app does, but I think identi.ca already has this functionality:

1) Settings 2) Twitter 3) Check: Subscribe to my Twitter friends here.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what that option does on identi.ca. I have it enabled, and it doesn't appear to have done anything in particular yet? Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the setting could elaborate.

Exodus doesn't do any modifications to your twitter nor your identi.ca account. Instead, it retrieves all of the people that you follow on twitter and lists any of them that also have identi.ca accounts on your screen.

If you were thinking about dropping twitter entirely, this could help you make a more informed decision before you switch: do you really want to switch when only 10% of your friends on twitter actually have identi.ca accounts? Or on the opposite end, if you prefer identi.ca and see that 90% of your friends also have identi.ca accounts, then go ahead and subscribe to those users and jump ship.

The app doesn't do anything magical; it simply gives you information. What you do with it is up to you.

I'm the author of Exodus (no affiliation with the recent itunes app gay-cure scandal), and I wanted to put a plea out there that if any of you do try this out and encounter any issues with it, please feel free to post issues on github. It is a simple app, and I don't really intend to do significantly more work on it, but I would like to fix any bugs that arise.

Rendering of exceptions is enabled by default in development, but if you're running the app in "production" (which is the default environment), just enable the debug > renderExceptions flag inside config/settings/production.php.

Thanks!

Cool app. Bookmarked because I'm thinking of switching. @pdenya on twitter for now.

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