>> ddevine@identi.ca:

“basically nothing is actually interoperable with Pump.io.”

what??

>> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium):

“Yes, the overhead of operating manually didn't scale.”

You don't have to operate it manually, things like http://brdcst.it/ or PumpTweet can do a lot for you:

https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Clients

You just need to be interested to find these things.