I first found out about Laconica, the AGPL micro-blogging system created by Evan Prodromou, when I discovered identi.ca about a day or so after it was opened to the public.
I considered installing it, but I held off for a bit until I learned more about it and its development.
In the end, the federated nature of Laconica which allows users to send notices across the various installations on the Internet was the deciding factor for me to install it because I have a preference for running things from my own site instead of relying on a third party site when possible in order to minimize the need to register and share my information with them (e.g., OpenID, etc.)
The installation and configuration was fairly easy and I haven’t had any issues aside from having to modify the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file slightly to get the “fancy” URLs to work correctly […]

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