Hosted identi.ca

[Jonathan Roberts]

2009/7/16 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> Evan, the principal and CEO behind laconi.ca and identi.ca (Control
> Yourself, Inc. in Montreal), has started offering free hosted
> instances to some free projects.  I met Evan at Open Source Bridge in
> Portland last month and he asked me if the Fedora Project would be
> interested in one.  I told him we would definitely love to try it out,
> because of our mission of and support for 100% free and open software
> and services.  I believe this is their status.net service, launched
> very recently.

What is the difference to simply holding an account on identi.ca?

Jon