Thimbl: decentralised, open source, micro-blogging
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Thimbl is a Manifesto for the Open Web written in code. The most significant challenge the open web will need to overcome is not technical, it is political. Welcome to thimbl, the free, open source, distributed micro-blogging platform. If you're tired of being locked in to one micro-blogging platform, or a single social network. Or you're weary of corporations hi-jacking your updates in the pursuit of money, then thimbl is for you.
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- 1. THIMBL
- 5. because
- 7. THIMBL data is stored on the users' own server
- 8. THIMBL requires no software!* *...well, just a little bit!
- 9. THIMBL connects to the users' server with...
- 10. SSH
- 11. & finger* * what is a 1970s network protocol?
- 12. to access or update their user data
- 13. THIMBL is based on Mammatus a distributed webserver that allows fast and cheap scaling
- 14. MAMMATUS is designed to create a highly available cluster using simple Virtual Private Servers, available for as little as $5
- 15. THIMBL .net does as much as it can client-side, to reduce load HTML5, javascript engines, threading & workers all make this possible. Thanks guys!
- 16. THIMBL .net can be run with just finger and ssh installed
- 17. THIMBL could should be CLONE CLONE D we don't care how, or why, just that it is
- 18. THIMBL is a manifesto for the open web, written in <CODE/>
- 19. the major challenge for the open web is political, not technical - Dmytri Kleiner
- 20. CAPITALI$M will not fund free and open platforms*
- 21. * because it needs to capture profits for investors
- 22. In order to capture profit, capital financed platforms need to control user interaction and user data
- 23. Free, open systems must be built without capital financing.
- 24. Thus, projects that intend to build free and open platforms need to be extremely resource efficient
- 26. SMALL simple, systems. built by small, agile teams in their spare time quickly!
- 27. DESIGN systems that can be deployed using common internet services, cheaply
- 28. BUILD on existing, established, distributed platforms where possible i.e. email, usenet, irc, finger and not reinventing the wheel
- 29. THIMBL achieves this by building upon finger, ssh, http and dns
- 30. THIMBL becomes a highly available, open source, distributed social network with very little new code see what we did there? ;)
- 31. THIMBL reduces development effort by leveraging existing free software as much as possible Hi Twisted! Hello jQuery!
- 33. THIMBL is a performance as much as a platform
- 34. THIMBL is a call to arms: focus on simple systems, extend established platforms take note developers!
- 35. THIMBL is OUR example development has been public using old and new social networks
- 36. THIMBL is promoting the ideas behind what we're doing as well as the platform itself
- 37. the constraints of time and resources are part of our message
- 38. simple, early functionality is part of our message
- 39. living in the cyberghettos of free, open platforms is part of our message
- 40. not keeping up with the Joneses in well financed web2.0 companies is part of our message
- 41. THIMBL will succeed with a community. join us and help make a free, open, social network
- 42. THIMBL is: thimbl.net telekommunisten.net <socialNetwork>/thimbl presentation by @mikepearce need help setting up finger or ssh? get in touch!
- 43. THX! http://flic.kr/p/7bzdhi - savannah williams http://flic.kr/p/7AqaXk - the loushe http://flic.kr/p/EoUx - bayat http://flic.kr/p/K4QuW - CoreBurn http://flic.kr/p/4tc7qy - Cayusa http://flic.kr/p/Nitmw - Darwin Bell http://flic.kr/p/NhQ4f - Swiv http://www.flickr. com/photos/25787132@N06/4541845512/ - Ian Crowfeather thanks for the images!