If Twitter is a microblog, Laconica is a microforum
This is a Good Thing™, and here’s why.
A lot of forum discussions are very short back and forth exchanges. Even in a threaded forum, you look across the page and there’s really only a smal bit that significant. The rest of a post is often quoted from the previous posts. THis is from the Wells-Fargo days when these discussions took place via email over weeks and no one remembered the context.
So fast forward to today, where we now live. For quick exchanges in a community built around common interests, nothing beats the unsexily-named Open Microbloger and the horribly-named Laconica, the flagship instance you can see at their respective sites:
