Thimbl

A distributed microblogging service. An artwork. Politics, economy and society.

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1. THIMBL
2. THIMBL is a microblogging tool
3. doesn't involve birds THIMBL
4. THIMBL or whales
5. because
6. THIMBL is decentralized
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. is designed to create a highly available cluster using simple Virtual Private Servers, available for as little as MAMMATUS $5
15. THIMBL does as much as it can client-side, to reduce load HTML5, javascript engines, threading & workers all make this possible. Thanks guys! .net
16. THIMBL can be run with just finger and ssh installed .net
17. THIMBL could should be CLONE CLONE D we don't care how, or why, just that it is
18. THIMBL is a manifesto for the open web, written in <CODE/>
19. the major challenge for the open web is political, not technical - Dmytri Kleiner
20. CAPITALI$M will not fund platforms* free and open
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
25. WHAT THIS MEANS...
26. simple, systems. built by small, agile teams in their spare time quickly! SMALL
27. systems that can be deployed using common internet services, cheaply DESIGN
28. on existing, established, distributed platforms where possible BUILD 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!
32. <intermission>phew</intermission>
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!