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About
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%%site.name%% is a
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[micro-blogging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging) service
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based on the Free Software [Laconica](http://laconi.ca/) tool.
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anything you want. You can also subscribe to the notices of your
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friends, or other people you're interested in, and follow them on the
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Web or in an [RSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) feed.
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FAQ
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---
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These are some *Frequently Asked Questions* about this service, with
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some answers.
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What is %%site.name%%?
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%%site.name%% is a [micro-blogging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging) service.
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You can use it to write short notices about yourself, where you are,
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and what you're doing, and those notices will be sent to all your friends
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and fans.
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How is %%site.name%% different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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%%site.name%% is an [Open Network Service](http://opendefinition.org/osd). Our main
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goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users' autonomy. In
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particular, all the software used for %%site.name%% is [Free Software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software), and all the data is available
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under the [%%license.title%%](%%license.url%%) license, making it Open Data.
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The software also implements the [OpenMicroBlogging](http://openmicroblogging.org/) protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services
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that can receive your notices.
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The goal here is *autonomy* -- you deserve the right to manage your own on-line
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presence. If you don't like how %%site.name%% works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).
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Where is feature X?
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The software we run, [Laconica](http://laconi.ca/), is still in its early stages,
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and many features people expect from microblogging sites are not yet implemented. Some important ones that are expected "soon":
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* [SMS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS) updates and notifications
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* A Twitter-compatible API
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* More [AJAX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX)-y interface
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* Maps
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* Cross-post to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
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* Pull messages from Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
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* [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/) integration
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* Hashtags
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* Image, video, audio notices
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* Automatic url-shortening
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* Multilingual interface (using Gettext)
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There is [a list of bugs and features](http://laconi.ca/PITS/) that you may find
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interesting. New ideas or complaints are very welcome.
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