Thanks for supporting this free software-based microblogging service, i.e. Thimbl.
Instructions and introduction:
Thimbl from Telekommunisten on Vimeo.
Dmytri Kleiner writes:
“As some of you may know, I’ve gotten drawn into the world of social media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few reasons for this, one, to explore those platforms as ways to communicate, but also to very large degree, to understand the enemy. Much of what’s wrong with Web2.0 is covered in the Telekommunist Manifesto (http://bit.ly/telekommunist), recently published by Geert Lovink and the Institute for Network Cultures. But now, Telekommunisten are going beyond criticizing the twitbooks, we have initiated a project to develop a truly social platform, one that is open source and decentralized, and perhaps best of all, based on the Finger Protocol, which was originally developed in the 1970s and is already support on pretty much every platform.
The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it’s own: http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html
Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger & SSH client
Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl project is just beginning, we need your to help spread the word.
What’s really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web Award from Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we’ll be hanging around the OpenZone at Transmediale spreading the word and answering questions.
Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, and we really need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the Award is being done on the drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, and is up against two projects that are far better known, so we’re really need your vote. Please sign up to drumbeat and vote for Thimbl!
Here’s how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl
Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can see it on the home page of our drumbeat project.
And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the Transmediale jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project and so are we!
Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this on, share, blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social media! With your help, we can make this manifesto for the open web heard!”