well, one of his problems, in my view, was: he didn't set a #subdomain (1) which e.g. resulted in: I could never ping him with his #webfinger :-( (1) http://federation.skilledtests.com/Statusnet_problems.html#how_should_the_URL.2Fdomain.2Fpath_structure_for_my_statusnet_be.3F