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History of indy.im

I joined identi.ca late 2009 ? early 2010 ?  I'd always been interested in self-hosting and maintaining autonomous services, so set up indy.im. in October 2010. There were several motivations at the time. 
* So I could run my own bots.  I had some on identi.ca but they kept being blocked/banned; which was fair enough.
* As a proxy into twitter - so users could keep their own data, and to obfuscate location/ip addresses
* as a mobile interface to UK # I published  a customised version of the mustard android apk, branded it with an indymedia logo, and hardwired some login credentials in it. Activists could use it on early smart phones and publish short pieces of news and photos to indy.im.  The RSS for these would be pulled into the national/regional indymedia's
* And as a personal microblog thing.