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Yes, all that there is at this stage is a slide show. (all projects start somewhere). More will come soon very soon (mammatus is already finished and release, the ui is getting there) There is no plea for community help (though of course help is always welcome) it is a plea for sysops to turn their finger service on so their users can use thimbl, and an offer to help where help is needed. As for the difference between a decentralized microblogging service and a bunch of blogs with fees... we'll leave that as an excersise for the reader. Interesting that you bother to post a comment when you believe there is nothing to talk about, but thanks for the feedback in anycase.

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"There is no plea for community help"

From your slideshow: "THIMBL will succeed with a community. join us and help make a free, open social network"

"and a bunch of blogs with fees"

What "fees" for running free blogging software on my server?

"Interesting that you bother to post a comment"

It's called having an opinion. If you can't deal with skepticism after publishing PR material without having anything more substantive handy, rethink your strategy.

You can have whatever opinion you want, my opinion is that is curious to post opinions on things you think are not worth talking about. If you don't get that, well, we have different opinions then. I meant 'feeds' not fees. sorry. we didn't publish anything, I just shared a link to a text I wrote on my own twitter account (not even @thimbl), somebody else posted it here. We have never claimed to have anything more substantive handy at this stage, when we do, which will be soon, we will post that. Every project starts somewhere. Not sure where you see a "plea for help" in what you quote it is an invitation, we want people who are interested in using thimbl to know they are welcome to contact us, and if they need any help, that we will help. Thanks for the comments.

I think it is very curious when someone builds a website and a slideshow to promote something, then claims he isn't publishing anything. Or when that person feels the need to misrepresent another who makes any sort of criticism.

First hint: I at no time said that I found this "not worth talking about". Those are words you tried to put in my mouth to distract from my noting that there's not much here to go on.

Second hint: People say "community, come help us succeed" in order to blame the lack of community help when they go nowhere.

He Semiapies, I'm really not sure why you think a project can't start with a website and a slideshow to try to explain what it is, or wether you are suggesting that we should only ever put anything on our website when we are done. Or what. No need to distract that there is not much here, there is not much here, I said so myself. In terms of criticism, and blame, again, I'm really not sure what you are talking about, we have no need to blame anyone for anything, and we're very much interested in criticism, I simply can't understand what yours is. That we should keep our slide show secret until the system is ready for launch? Well, as I said, I have a different opinion and prefer to be open. Whatever.

Tricknik, try actually responding in good faith to something I say - this involves not defensively putting words in my mouth - and I might bother.

I am trying. Can you summarize what you are saying?

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