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-    *********
-    Friendika
-    *********
+    *************
+    * Friendika *
+    *************
 
     Distributed Social Network
 
@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was open source,
 *and* where your privacy is always under your control?
  
     And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire 
-internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in 
-exchange for selling your private information; and everything else they can
-find out about you - from logging all of your online activities and
-conversations)?
+internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers? 
+(In exchange for peddling your private information behind your back.)
 
     Look no further. 
 
@@ -81,11 +79,6 @@ only able to see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a
 private message to your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade
 encryption.
 
-    Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering
-a feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is 
-vapour and vague promises. Things like "Private mail will be in the next
-release". 
-
     Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications 
 interface you can make use of *right now*.
 
@@ -96,6 +89,13 @@ But we're creating something completely different.
 
     Something better.
 
+    Start with richer communications. Adorn your text, colour it. We've got a 
+text counter in case you're sending across to one of the primitive social 
+networks, but we don't think you should have to squeeze your communications
+into some arbitrary limit. Free yourself from thinking how to squeeze your 
+message into 140 or 420 characters, or sending messages in some strange 
+short-hand code. Even edit your text after you send it. It's OK.
+
     A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to
 several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. You could even run
 Friendika on an old PC in your closet or garage. Each of these people are able