StatusNet The service received more than 8,000 registrations and 19,000 updates within the first 24 hours of publicly launching on July 2, 2008, and reached its 1,000,000th notice on November 4, 2008. In January 2009, identi.ca received investment funds from
venture capital group Montreal Start Up. On March 30, 2009, Control Yourself (since renamed StatusNet Inc) announced that Identi.ca was to become part of a hosted microblogging service called status.net to be launched in May 2009. Status.net offers individual microblogs under a subdomain to be chosen by the customer. Identi.ca will remain a free service. All notices will be published under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default, but paying customers will be free to choose a different license. Formerly based on
StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the
OStatus specification (and earlier based on the
OpenMicroBlogging specification), Identi.ca allowed users to send text updates (known as "notices") up to 140 characters long. While similar to
Twitter in both concept and operation, Identi.ca/StatusNet provided many features not currently implemented by Twitter, including
XMPP support and personal
tag clouds. In addition, Identi.ca/StatusNet allowed free export and exchange of personal and "friend" data based on the
FOAF standard; therefore, notices could be fed into a Twitter account or other service, and also ported in to a private system similar to
Yammer.
pump.io Developer
Evan Prodromou chose to change the site to the
pump.io software platform in development, because pump.io offers more features making it technically more advanced. Registration on Identi.ca was closed in December 2012 in preparation for the switch to pump.io software (the popularity of Identi.ca and "official" Status.net hosting were considered a hindrance to the creation of a
federated social network).
hashtags, and a page listing popular posts are not yet implemented in pump.io. == See also ==