Ironically, one of the most important properties of an open platform is that it's easy to switch away from.
It'd be nice to have a client that presented both tweets and toots to me, and Twitter is the bottleneck on that.
Hey y'all, remember when Google Talk was XMPP
@jennamagius I finally gave up on federating with Google's Jabber server last year, since they *never added TLS*, and I insisted on making all s2s connections encrypted.
The only person who was still available on it anyway was my spouse, so I gave her an account on my server. :-)
@jennamagius *raises hand*
Ironic insofar as... the problem with trying to get people to switch away from closed platforms is mostly only a problem _because those are closed platforms_.