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status.net comes with a nice twitter bridge built in, which, when called, can synchronize twitter contact updates into the personal status.net timeline. They can be replied to and be cross-sent to twitter. Using a cron job to run the twitterbridge scripts turns this effectively into a nice twitterclient.
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OAuth enables you to follow people on diaspora, by using their handle (e.g. vanish@joindiaspora.com) as an external contact. People followed this way won’t see that you follow them, which is somewhat nice, as it takes away the “I have more followers than you” game. Of course, that way they can’t add you to any aspects too, so all you see should be their public updates.
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The more I work on status.net, the more it amazes me. It comes with a whole bundle of plugins which (very unintuitively) need to be enabled in the config.php – and for most plugins, the parameters that come along with them, if any, are poorly (read: not) documented.
Still, I found a great plugin called SubMirror, which basically enables status.net to get data from any rss feed and post it as status updates. Sadly, it requires PuSH rss, so twitter and plurk (both of which provide rss feeds) still won’t work.
I didn’t want to go to all the length to install my own PuSH server, and since I would’ve needed to sign up for any public one, I, for now, just used dlvr.it as a bridge service.
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Okay, found out that, in order to post a message to a group, you need to start it with !groupname. However, groups are visible to anyone, so there’s no real point to them, as far as I’m concerned. StatusNet 0.9.7 has a GroupPrivateMessage plugin, which will, instead of notices in the public group timeline, send the notices as private messages to all group members, which isn’t quite what I was looking for either. Allegedly, StatusNet 1.0 will have some private group features. Damn, documentation on that stuff is hard to find.
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