I sort of miss app.net. I feel like a bunch of us were building a little community there; it’s demise is why I’m here but also why I’ve been hesitant to invest time and energy into a new social network.
@jeffmueller I know, right? It's always nice to see folks from our little virtual town in various places, but diaspora is hard on any culture.
@bennomatic I loved App.net too. We do hear that hesitancy from people, and I get it, but I think @brentsimmons captured the reasons why Micro.blog is different.
@manton It's a good article, and it also reminds me that App.net wasn't intended to be a twitter clone as @brentsimmons describes it. IIRC, App.net was supposed to be an infrastructure service for (primarily social) apps which had a reason to exchange serialized messaging. The ADN twitter clone was just a model that showed how it worked, and it worked so well that a lot of folks abandoned Twitter for it. Sadly, though, it worked well enough that the underlying service never took off to a sustainable level.
I guess the key take-away here is that apps are what people use them for. I like what MB is attemping to do; looking forward to watching it evolve.