A few years ago I wrote about StatusNET, a self-hosted Twitter clone. Since then, a few things have changed. Twitter will probably be sold to whoever finally decides to risk it and StatusNET is now GNU Social. That makes it a time as good as any to have another look at what’s changed and whether…
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Disclaimer: StatusNET is now part of GNUSocial, the below review is obsolete. Read our GNUSocial review here. In a nutshell or The TL;DR StatusNet is a full-featured self-hosted Twitter clone. But in order for it to be really useful as a replacement, it would need to be able to communicate with other instances, which currently…